FGLRX driver not being used

[William John Murray]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 10:43 +0000, William John Murray wrote:
> O
> >  Thanks. But it didn't work for me.
> > I found in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx
> > the suggestions that I should add:
> > 
> > 
> > Section "ServerFlags"
> >         Option  "AIGLX" "off"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > Section "Extensions"
> >         Option "Composite" "Disable"
> > EndSection
> > To xorg.conf, and indeed there are no more '(EE)' messages on starting X
> > with both those set. But Mesa continues to manage screen 0  :(
> 
>   Still confused. I tried the xorg.cxonf from Phoronix:
> http://www.phoronix.com/redblog/downloads/xorg-fc6-sample.conf
>  said to fix this, and got the same results.
> 
>   Also, maybe connected, I have a weirdness that my xorg.conf says
> may keyboard is UK. But it types US. I go into system-config-keyboard
> and this claims UK. I click UK. and I get UK - until I restart
> the X server. Probably something else, but I just thought it might
> ring a bell with someone...
>     Bill
>From http://www.phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=320
Release of ATI fglrx 8.30.3 Display Drivers

* Users with X Server X.org 7.1 can now play video using XV.

I tried to install them from the AMD/ATI binary; and got libGL in
a mess, so have gone back to where I was.
    I expect livna will package them sometime.
           Cheers,
                 Bill