This is another one of ati's fuckups so I am not really sure how it is going to get resolved. The new drivers compleatelly disregarded the fact that certain things in the kernel got changed and as a result a patch is needed for both kernel 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 in order to get the ati-drivers working correctly. I managed to somehow get them working for a while under 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 without extra patches but the performance was less than acceptable and I was getting arround 60fps in every opengl app that I tried to run untill celestia killed xorg and then froze the machine. There might be some other patches available but here are the ones that I managed to find so far. These are tested and verified to work by several people. kernel 2.6.10: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1333438744&postcount=1 kernel 2.6.11: http://www.gehirn.org.uk/wiki/images/8.8.25-kernel-2.6.11+.patch I am not sure if the patches cause any problems on system not using an ATI card but if someone can verify that they are *safe* then it is probably a good idea to incude these in the appropriate kernel builds. PS: Sorry if this bug is not in the right place. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Sorry for the original post. The patches are NOT for the kernel but for the driver released by ATI. Sorry for the mix up.
patch already included in the ebuild
