Bug 562508

Summary:	>=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-15.7 - support installation without X
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	xdarma <aletrev>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	jekarlson, proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description xdarma 2015-10-07 19:16:17 UTC

Latest fglrx drivers has a new compile flag: --NoXServer
From the fglrx manual:
GPUs can be used only for computation purposes (commonly seen with AMD server graphics products or headless GPUs) where X Server is running on non-AMD GPUs or in cases where there is no X Server running on the system.
AMD provides support for headless implementations of server GPUs.
[http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/amd-catalyst-graphics-driver-installer-notes-for-linux-operating-systems.pdf]

It would be nice if a new USE can install the fglrx driver without the xorg dependency.

The flag --NoXServer seem to work from 15.7 version.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2017-03-15 19:33:43 UTC

x11-drivers/ati-drivers has been removed, per bug 582406.