How to install ATI Drivers?

xanas3712 · Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 455

I searched through several threads and either couldn't find what i was looking for or didn't understand it.

Anyway, it's been a couple months since I've been in linux since I've been playing games a lot and they just didn't work well with the old radeon drivers.

So, I found out they released a xorg 6.8 set finally and have updated to that with emerge x11

Anyway, I then used emerge --sync so that I could emerge radeon-drivers, yet the package it is trying to use is the older 3.14.1 package that wants me to downgrade to xorg 6.7?

I've also tried based on the forum to use emerge ati-drivers-8.8.25 and that gives me this error, which I still don't completely understand

Arainach · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 609

Enter this:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch" emerge ati-drivers

I replace ~arch with ~x86 since I'm running an Athlon XP, but I think that leaving ~arch as is works.
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Untouchable · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:19 am Post subject:

But if you do so, next time you emerge -u world it will want to downgrade that package.
Create a file /etc/portage/package.keywords (create /etc/portage if it does not exist) and put it there: