[ltp] fglrx on T43 2668-74G

[Marcel Selhorst]

Hi Josh,

wow! I still just don't believe it, Tux is eating fish again ;-))
Thanks a lot, Josh! (Although I applied those patches manually, it
didn't work until your new ebuild...)

That Gentoo-ebuild works, and for those who do not know how to
Overlay the portage tree, here a short howto, how it worked for me:

Create an approriate portage-dir somewhere

- mkdir /home/portage-overlay
- mkdir /home/portage-overlay/media-video
- mkdir /home/portage-overlay/media-video/ati-drivers
- cp /usr/portage/media-video/ati-drivers/*
/home/portage-overlay/media-video/ati-drivers -R
- echo 'PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/portage-overlay"' >> /etc/make.conf

then copy the new ebuild into /home/portage-overlay/media-video/ati-drivers
and the new patches into subdir files and type:

- ebuild /home/portage-overlay/media-video/ati-drivers/ati-drivers-8.14.13-r2.ebuild
digest

Afterwards simply

- emerge ati-drivers

load the fglrx-module, restart X and that's it.

Thanks again and best regards,

Marcel Selhorst


Joshua Megerman schrieb:
> On Friday 22 July 2005 11:06 am, Marcel Selhorst wrote:
> 
>>Hi Josh,
>>
>>
>>>I've noticed the same problem, though gentoo currently only applies 2 of
>>>the 3 patches that were posted last night.
>>
>>I have recognized the same, but even if I build the module manually by
>>applying the three patches by myself, xorg crashes without any error. Seems
>>to be more...
>>
> 
> After generating a portage overlay ebuild I got it to work. You need to copy 
> all(?) the .patch files from the primary media-video/ati-drivers/files dir in 
> the main portage tree to the media-video/ati-drivers/files dir in the overlay 
> dir so portage can find them, but it's quite simple.  I'm attaching my ebuild 
> as well as the one patch I added to the files dir.
> 
> FYI, here's my misc section ofthe fglrx config block - I played with it a 
> little while I was testing, but I'm not sure what (if anything) fixed 
> things...
> 
>     Option "UseFastTLS"                 "2"
>     Option "BlockSignalsOnLock"         "on"
>     Option "UseInternalAGPGART"         "yes"
> 
> It appears that the patch has made it onto the package maintainer's radar, but 
> it hasn't been included in the main portage tree yet.  Hopefully soon...
> 
> Josh