ATI driver

[Charles Tuckey]

For the record, I had the same livna problems that Tom describes when
I used livna to install the fglrx driver for my X1400 card on my
x86_64 system but I don't have the hanging problem.

charlie

On 11/20/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:44:04 -0800
> Andreas <linuxdreas at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
> > Did anyone get the proprietary fglrx drivers from ATI to work with FC 6?
> > I installed them from the livna repository (ver. 8.31.5) and although the
> > kernel module is loaded, a test with fgl_glxgears fails with an error
> > message, and fglrxinfo still shows Mesa as the openGL vendor.
>
> Check out http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269 all the stuff
> that the ati-fglrx-config-display python script is supposed to do,
> doesn't happen. If you read the script and do the work by hand, you
> can get it to work, but on my system, I then run into this bug:
> http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=37 (at least on x86_64), and
> the system hard hangs when I exit the X server (though I haven't tried
> the 8.31.5 - maybe it is better, but I have the open source radeon
> driver working well for me now, so I'm not sure I want to venture
> back into fglrx land :-).
>
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Regards,
    Charlie