Gentoo ati-drivers testing use only

Acting a manual unmerge of the ati-drivers package with ati opengl leave wrong links for libglx and others. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge ati-drivers 2. eselect opengl set ati 3. emerge -C ati-drivers Actual Results: eselect will not be able to complete opengl set xorg-x11 operation and ati-drivers cant be merged due to compile errors.  · ATI-Drivers stopped working with kernel. I run into this bug yesterday as I was attempting to install ati-drivers for my new AMD R9 For now these patches work, the real solution will come with the new "amdgpu" driver that will appear in the .  · If Gentoo tells me "We have put XOrg in the testing branch because we wanted you to continue working with your system the same way as you did before - be aware that you can't use 3D acceleration with nvidia drivers under XOrg " then I'm happy because it denotes a responsible decision. And that's what I expect from Gentoo.

In many cases, both binary and open-source drivers exist. Open source drivers are preferable since we're using Linux and open source is one of its underlying principles. Sometimes, binary drivers are the only option, especially if the graphics card is so new that open source drivers have not yet been written to support its features. KMS uses this.) Console display driver support Framebuffer Console Support. Next configure the kernel to use the proper KMS driver for the video card. Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD/ATI are the most common cards, so follow code listing for each card below. Intel. For Intel cards see the kernel section of the Intel article. NVIDIA. We recommend using sys-kernel/gentoo-sources because it is a special kernel designed for Gentoo Linux. It contains lots of AMDspecific patches and therefore is the only kernel officially supported by Gentoo/AMD Make sure you have the IA32_EMULATION option activated in the kernel. root # cd /usr/src/linux. root # make menuconfig.

However, after installing linux-firmware and setting it into the config [ebuild R ] xdrivers/xfvideo-atigentoo USE="glamor. Open-source drivers are preferable since we're using Linux and open source is one of its underlying principles. Sometimes, binary drivers are the only. 6 thg 9, In my experience the only scenario where it has been necessary to compile firmware and the kernel driver into the kernel image was using RX.