On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 23:36 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 21:39 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: > >> Craig White wrote: > >>> Obviously not having the source, neither fedora nor xorg are going to > >>> distribute the binary version of fglrx (ATI). > >>> > >>> FWIW, it does work much better than the xorg 'radeon' > >>> > >>> I used livna's install > >>> > >>> Craig > >>> > >> It appears that either the ATI installer or the livna version work for > >> my system. Attached is the output of a failed livna binary. > >> I had to revert to radeon again but only edited the diver and kept the > >> generated configuration for the fglrx attempt. > > ---- > > Jim, > > > > I had to take a couple of runs at it to get it working - I'm not at the > > office now...I'll follow up with more info when I get to the office. > > > > Craig > > > > Thanks! I would of course use an outstanding radeon driver from Fedora > instead of using an outside the distro version. With the decayed > graphics quality though, outside drivers if they work better would be a > solution until the radeon driver (Multistage with the ati, if I recall) > is in a tolerable state again. I'm putting up the white flag for > submitting bugs since the last problem with the i810 was shuffled > upstream for most of the bug correspondence. I think the radeon problem > would be handled the same if a report was posted in RH bugzilla. ---- yeah, I will probably have to do something like a bugzilla entry on the radeon xorg driver which as far as I can tell, works like crap (major regression) and no one has suggested otherwise thus far. I also got the impression that xorg is working with ATI's new open source effort to improve this so this may be an in-between problem. This is how I got the 'fglrx' driver to work on Fedora 8 with Livna repository.... # to get rid of the vestiges of a failed install attempt... yum remove \ kmod-fglrx \ kmod-fglrx-2.6.23.1-49 \ xorg-x11-drv-fglrx \ livna-config-display rpm -ivh \ /var/cache/yum/livna/packages/kmod-fglrx \ /var/cache/yum/livna/packages/kmod-fglrx-2.6.23.1-49 \ /var/cache/yum/livna/packages/xorg-x11-drv-fglrx \ /var/cache/yum/livna/packages/livna-config-display Now I will note that I am use x86_64 which installs compat-libstdc++-33 for both x86_64 and i386 as dependencies (but they come from Fedora, not Livna) My problem with the above was that it seemed to hang while installing kmod-fglrx-2.6.23.1-49 which as far as I could tell, was while doing linking and finally, I just installed via rpm which worked. Craig
