FGLRX Mystery Solved At Last, But....

[zx2c4]

Well for the past 6 months, I've been having much trouble with ati-drivers and fglrx. I finally figured out how to fix the version in ~x86 portage. I have to add no_dri="yes", start x, then kill x, then add no_dri="no", then start X. I found that ATI had fixed this bug in the newest version. However, the newest version (2.16) is masked with -* in packages.mask. I unmaksed it in keywords and it works great.


Why is it masked?

[vinky]

Because people like I have had problem with it
For example the driver got me lower resolution than with earlier versions and it (i guess) got my x server to go blank after the second restart and I couldnt do anything other than boot from the livecd and remove it