Hi On 6/10/07, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Afaik the older ATI drivers only work with older versions of Xorg so > your solution does not work. We're in the middle of a thread where the OP says that the currently released flgrx drivers don't work with F7,
Correct
but that the older FC6 drivers *do* work with F7!
False
So unless you think the OP is a liar, how does this "not work"?
You probably misunderstood what works and what does not work. In short: * older fglrx drivers don't work with any xorg-server ever released for F7, both during the test period than now with the final release; * newer fglrx drivers don't work with F7 xorg-server package, but work with some versions released during F7 test period (and with FC6 ones). Is it OK now? I'm not a native English speaker so please correct me if I did not make myself clear.
Noone is claiming that the problem is Fedora's. ATI needs to fix their drivers.
Yes, that's their fault. The binary blob within fglrx simply crashes with a pretty useless (for non-ATI employees) traceback.
Especially if the problem is related to the 2.6.22 kernel that F7 ships with and the problem is not the fault of any RH patches/fixes not taken from upstream.
Kernel versions don't matter for this issue. By the way, I don't use Fedora kernel nor livna kernel module.
If that's the case, then repo's (like Livna, which packages fglrx for F7) need to replace their packages with an older version which *does* work with F7.
[ Hope I've already explained this ] For more detailed analisys, please go to Phoronix forums (google is your friend). Just a side note: This is what my system runs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [fcomolli@tycho ~]$ uname -a Linux tycho 2.6.22-rc4 #1 SMP Fri Jun 8 20:28:36 CEST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [fcomolli@tycho ~]$ rpm -q xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.2.0-6.fc7 [fcomolli@tycho download]$ rpm -qa|grep ATI ATI-fglrx-control-center-8.37.6-1.f7 kernel-module-ATI-fglrx-2.6.22-rc4-8.37.6-1.f7 ATI-fglrx-8.37.6-1.f7 ATI-fglrx-devel-8.37.6-1.f7
> Rahul -- Kevin J. Cummings
Regards, Fabio
