Bug 436134

Summary:	create ebuild for legacy ati-drivers (12.4)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Lucas Treffenstädt <lucas>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Lucas Treffenstädt 2012-09-24 20:05:28 UTC

Since support for a lot of radeon chipsets was dropped from > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.4 (See bug #419493) it would be nice to have a separate ebuild (like x11-drives/ati-legacy) for users who still use those chipsets or maybe a legacy slot in x11-drivers/ati-drivers.
This is especially needed because fixes may be necessary to make the driver work with newer kernels (See #436130)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2012-09-24 20:36:59 UTC

We have ati-drivers-12.6_beta_pre897 ("12.6 Legacy") for legacy hardware in tree and we have no plans for packaging anything older. Once it goes stable in bug 433665, version 12.4 will be dropped.

Comment 2 Szymluk 2012-09-25 18:31:32 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> We have ati-drivers-12.6_beta_pre897 ("12.6 Legacy") for legacy hardware in
> tree and we have no plans for packaging anything older. Once it goes stable
> in bug 433665, version 12.4 will be dropped.

Hi,
I have a question. Does these drivers work with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4XXX series?

Regards,
Ł. Sz.

Comment 3 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2012-09-25 18:42:33 UTC

From the AMD support page it appears so:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst126legacyproducts.aspx

Comment 4 Szymluk 2012-09-25 20:06:58 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> From the AMD support page it appears so:
> http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst126legacyproducts.aspx

Ok, thanks.