ATI graphics card driver
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Sat Jan 22 20:22:46 UTC 2005
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 15:09 -0500 schrieb David Curry:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> >On Saturday 22 January 2005 12:57, August wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hello all,
> >>
> >>ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> >>released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed
> >>the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of
> >>any info?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >URL please? I have a 9200SE
FYI: The open-source driver for your card already supports DRI.
> >
> Go to http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html select linux x86 or x86-64
> and click on "go" button near lower right corner.
There you can download the driver, yes. But
- you need to compile a kernel module
- it does not compile with the current fedora update kernel
- it installs files in the system that are not managed by rpm (earlier
or later that can lead to problems?)
- it conflicts with a RPM from Core
- it puts evil things like
if [ $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ]
then
if ! set | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
grep /usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules > /dev/null
then
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi
else
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi
into you /etc/profile and will never remove them (AFAIK).
All things that don't happen with the package from livna ;-)
Cu
thl
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