ATI graphics card driver

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

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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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>