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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:12 am    Post subject: Dont understand how to install ati-drivers? Reply with quote

I have an ati radeon 8200m g in my laptop. Ive read a lot of guides about installing the drivers but i domt understand exactly what to do. Can someone just kind off give me a guide to what i need to do?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:18 am    Post subject: Re: Dont understand how to install ati-drivers? Reply with quote

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I have an ati radeon 8200m g in my laptop. Ive read a lot of guides about installing the drivers but i domt understand exactly what to do. Can someone just kind off give me a guide to what i need to do?


1. Ensure that you have CONFIG_DRM=m in your kernel config.
2. run "emerge ati-drivers"
3. ???
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow really thats it? Ha! Alright then! And one more question its saying it will download gentoo-sources-3.10.7 and i dont want it to download any kernel. Im running 3.11.6 right now. How do i get it to skip that?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

austinramsay wrote:
Wow really thats it? Ha! Alright then! And one more question its saying it will download gentoo-sources-3.10.7 and i dont want it to download any kernel. Im running 3.11.6 right now. How do i get it to skip that?


Dunno. Ati-drivers ebuild doesnt seem to have any references to a kernel version. Its probably a requirement from some other package or something. Recent versions of portage have a bit weird dependency resolution.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Dunno. Ati-drivers ebuild doesnt seem to have any references to a kernel version. Its probably a requirement from some other package or something. Recent versions of portage have a bit weird dependency resolution.


Hmm alright. Do you think there will be any problems with kernels if i emerge it then?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Hmm alright. Do you think there will be any problems with kernels if i emerge it then?


It won't do anything other than download the source code and unpack it in /usr/src. That's only a problem if you're concerned about your disk space.

if you put =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.11.6 ~{your architecture} in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords I believe it will stop portage trying to pull in 3.10.7. I may be wrong, it should be there already anyway.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You do not need to install ATI drivers by hand.
You set VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" in your make.conf and the driver will be pulled in.
However, to load it you probably need to create a four-line xorg.conf with Device section.
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