When emerging the latest ati-drivers it pulls xorg-server v1.5 as a dependency. However, when running X with the ati driver it complains that the driver does not support ABI versions above 2.0, and that the version used by xorg-server is 4.1. Also my videocard is not recogniced (radeon hd 3450) and I get the error "no screens found". As I can tell the driver has not dropped support for the R600 chip but for R300 and below. However, PCI bus scanning has been replaced with libpciaccess in the recent xorg-server.
I upgraded the driver because of support for the newer kernel versions. With kernel 2.6.28 (gentoo-sources) I've resolved problems with my webcam, ALSA and some usb problems.
Has anyone else encountered the same problems when trying to upgrade kernel/ati-drivers/xorg? It seems stupid that the driver pulls a dependency not supporting the same versions of the ABI classes. Will I be able to compile a less recent ati driver with kernels above 2.6.24 without pulling xorg-server v1.5?
Thanks.
ATI driver 8.561 and xorg-server 1.53 and ABI versions
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I've noticed that too. I have a radeon 9600 (RV350 I think) with two separate screens running. I noticed the driver complaints about xorg ABI. Also xine in fullscreen on screen 2 (640x480) was taking the screen res from screen 1 (1152x864) and thus only show the top left portion of a video, I fixed that by setting the xine video driver to xshm.
Yes one of the drivers a few back works fine, I can't remember which one, but mask the version that pulls in xorg 1.5, try again and repeat until xorg 1.5 is not required.
Yes one of the drivers a few back works fine, I can't remember which one, but mask the version that pulls in xorg 1.5, try again and repeat until xorg 1.5 is not required.
ati-drivers 5.542 does not require xorg > v1.3. However it does not compile against the 2.6.28 kernel generating a similar (but I am not sure) error as previous versions did. It does include a patch to make it compile against the 2.6.27 kernel but I need the 28 as it is the one resolving my hardware issues (removes 3 min booting time previously used on usb rel. errors!).
mrbig, does your xorg log contain the incompatible ABI versions error/warning? I thought that might be the reason for my trouble. If it is not I guess it could be libpciaccess not recognizing my PCIe card...
mrbig, does your xorg log contain the incompatible ABI versions error/warning? I thought that might be the reason for my trouble. If it is not I guess it could be libpciaccess not recognizing my PCIe card...