Fabio Comolli wrote: > 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 ^^^^^ > 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). ??? You are saying that the new fglrx drivers work when an old xorg-server package is installed (either from an F7 pre-release package or a current FC6 package)? Yes indeed, I mis-understood. My bad! > Is it OK now? I'm not a native English speaker so please correct me if > I did not make myself clear. No, it was probably a combination of you and I together that screwed me up. B^) >> No one 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. Jose Celestino wrote: > Moreover I tryed opening a case with ATI for this but they dismissed it. > So it goes. How can they dismiss a driver failure? Unless they are claiming no support for F7, and plan to implement it RSN (which is silly to dismiss it, whatever happened to "solution pending"?) I just recently read an article (saw it on /.) about the ATI development/release process, and how they run about 6-8 weeks each, and there are 2 overlapping release cycles in progress at all times. Hard to believe that they didn't see F7 coming, OTOH, they probably can't support fixes for every release from every distribution. They are free to decide what the base packages are for their releases. (Yes, proprietary software can suck when it isn't targeted to the release it was built on.) Do I understand it correctly that ATI and F7 are now basing on different Xorg server revisions? If so, F7 may be stuck in ATIs past until things get back together. Not a good prospect, since I'm waiting for ATI to fix a few bugs in their drivers so MythTV displays the right colors again. I guess it won't happen in F7's timeframe. Maybe F8? -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
