On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:56:57 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> so very wrong.

From the AMD driver web site:

"32-Bit packages must be installed for 64-Bit Linux drivers to install
or work. "

The ebuild also pulls in the app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs
package. 

Please explain.

> >
> > The open-source x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati package works much
> > better. If you don't really need the 3D acceleration I'd recommend
> > you switch to that.  
> 
> except that they don't have working powermanagment, increasing energy 
> consumption (a lot) and noise (even more).

I hadn't noticed that. I did notice a definite speed and
stability improvement after switching to the open-source drivers. The
ati-drivers also crashed my system occasionally.



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