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austinramsay n00b
Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 53
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Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:12 am Post subject: Dont understand how to install ati-drivers? |
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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? |
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grey_dot Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Jul 2012 Posts: 142
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Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:18 am Post subject: Re: Dont understand how to install ati-drivers? |
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austinramsay wrote: | 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. ???
4. PROFIT |
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austinramsay n00b
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Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:21 am Post subject: |
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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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grey_dot Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:39 am Post subject: |
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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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austinramsay n00b
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Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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grey_dot wrote: | 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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mrbassie l33t
Joined: 31 May 2013 Posts: 772 Location: over here
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Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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austinramsay wrote: |
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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Jaglover Watchman
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 8291 Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana
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