On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > 2008/12/11 Miguel Ramos <2...@miguel.ramos.name>: > > 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de>: > >> Just do this: > >> kill X > >> eselect opengl set xorg-x11 > >> emerge -C ati-drivers > >> emerge =ati-drivers-8.552-r2 (for 8.11 - you don't miss anything when > >> you wait some days for the 8.12 ebuild) > >> eselect opengl set ati > >> reboot > > > > But the 8.552-r2 release seems to require all of Xorg to be re-emerged > > with ~amd64... isn't that too much trouble? > > And the 8.552 didn't build for me... > > > > Let me take a look at the 8.12 drivers... > > 8-12 (that is, release 8.561, that is, version 8.564) worked! > A bit more unstable I got a crash after restarting the server. > > Effectively, I didn't need anything more than picking the 8.552 ebuild > (which does not need Xserver 1.5), changing the source file name from > 8-11 to 8-12, rebuilding the manifest and emerging.
that does not install the right driver. You have also change the sourcefile name in the ebuild.
