On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 07:54 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 11:06 +0200, luca porcu wrote: > > 2007/6/1, Jack Howarth <howarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > The fglrx drivers appear to be quite broken for > > > fc7 at the moment. The ones in http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/testing/7/x86_64/ > > > > Hi, > > > > don't use the testing driver, use the driver released on livna, and > > install an old version of this package: xorg-x11-server-Xorg > > > > for example this xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.8.fc6.i386.rpm > > you can download it from this list of mirrors > > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc6&arch=i386 > > > > after installed this package you can use the fglrx driver on Fedora 7. > > > > Don't use yum to remove and install this package but use this: > > > > rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.8.fc6.i386.rpm --oldpackage > > > > or > > > > rpm -e --nodeps xorg-x11-server-Xorg > > rpm -i xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.8.fc6.i386.rpm > > I haven't followed this thread, although I should had because I also > have an X1300 (although for i686 system) that never worked during fc7 > testing. And if not already mentioned, the reason fglrx doesn't, is > because ATI's current driver, doesn't detect the xorg-x11-server-Xorg > version correctly. This has been fixed in the version 8.37.6. But since this new driver blows up on F7 it can not be used. Sigh, nice quality control & testing ATI. Regards, Patrick
