upgrade to X 4.2.1

mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 480

i'm wanting to upgrade to X 4.2.1, i'm hoping it has better support for my video card (Radeon 7000), this might be in the mask file, but how does one unmask a package in there? some lines have > signs, some have = signs, some have # signs.?

also, does anyone know if moving to x 4.2.1 will recompile anything that was built on x? kde, etc?

Mpemba Effect · Apprentice Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 156

The '#' are comments as you know, and as a wild guess '=' are mask anything that = and '>=' is = and = greater than.

To unmask xfree 4.2.1 you'll just need to remove the = before x11=base/xfree-4.2.1

When you emerge youd should see 4.2.1

aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

fmalabre · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 376 Location: Chicago

To unmask a package, add '#' in front of the line containing the ebuild name.
This has been discussed already as you could see doing a search.

Craigo · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 4:25 pm Post subject:

I presume we are seeing X4.2.1 to be released in gentoo soon?

-/Craigo/-

ebrostig · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 2:02 am Post subject:

dizzy · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 2:50 am Post subject:

On the flip side, I have an ATI card (radeon mobile) and running 4.2.1 fine. YMMV however.

Pitr · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 90

Xfree86 4.2.1 runs like a champ on my machine and I have a Radeon 7500, using the daily snapshots from DRI.

silverter · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 491 Location: Ulm, DE

I also have a ATI Rage 3D Pro LT on my notebook and running X4.2.1 without a problem. Still missing DRI for this card, but I don't think I'll get DRI running on this one, ever :-(

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fmalabre · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 376 Location: Chicago

According to the release note, there is nothing new for video dirver (just a revert for some ATI values).
Does anybody get 3D support through DRI for the Radeon 8500 on this version?

mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 480

i haven't upgraded x just yet, but did re-build a kernel, the radeon stuff is now compiled as a module in the kernel. glxinfo says i've got dri, but glxgears give at most 120fps, and it's choppy at best. i'm running 1024x768 in 16bit color. again, my card is a radeon 7000 (ve?). i would expect a little better than this with glxgears. does anyone know if ati-gatos is reqired to get this card working? it was masked in the current portage tree.

someone else mentioned dri snapshots, wouldn't a newer version of x have latest dri modules? where can i get the dri dailies to try out?

thanks!
jonesin' for some tuxracer.... (shoulda stayed with the rage128 or gotten an nvidia card)

pilla · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 12:58 pm Post subject: Re: damn ati cards

Don't you have to emerge and run opengl-update?

Pitr · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 90

mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 480

i do have opengl-update installed, still horrible framerates.

pilla · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 1:20 pm Post subject:

did you run it after installing your new XFree?

i_hate_your_os · Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 8:52 am Post subject: wierd, all works great for me.

I have a radeon "64M VIVO" (its a 7200 under the hood iirc) and seem to have had DRI working fine both in 4.2.0 and, for a while (I reverted) 4.2.1:

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

I'm running 4.2.1 for 1 week, without a hitch, on nvidia gf2mx, however yesterday on my usual 'emerge rsync' I noticed the following files on /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/files/4.2.1-patches/ :

Craigo · Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 11:54 am Post subject:

Seeing you peeps are already running it, I think I give it a go sometimes next week (I've just reinstalled!)

-/Craigo/-

DooBeDooBeDo · Apprentice Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 220 Location: UK

Swishy · Guru Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ

I have just found the Matrox drivers (from Matrox) wont install against 4.2.1

I downloaded the Source but it appears to be lacking nice things like config etc scripts .... anyone got these drivers compiled from source ?????

Cheers
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bedidos · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 12

I am having the same problems with the low frames rates. I too am getting about 120fps, although with a radeon 8500. I use the dri.sourceforge.net r200 driver. I've tried changing every setting, and nothing seems to help.

bedidos · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 12

I am having the same problems with the low frames rates. I too am getting about 120fps, although with a radeon 8500. I use the dri.sourceforge.net r200 driver. I've tried changing every setting, and nothing seems to help.