radeon, drm, and X700?

Sean seanlkml at sympatico.ca
Mon Jun 12 14:28:42 UTC 2006


On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 7:14:52 -0400
<tomhorsley at adelphia.net> wrote:

> Anyone know if drm support will be included with the radeon driver for newer
> ATI cards anytime soon? (And if you know, what's the answer :-). Will
> this be something that might come as a FC5 update, or are we talking
> FC6?
> 
> (Just for a competitive incentive, I'll point out that SUSE are shipping
> a radeon driver that does drm with OpenSUSE 10.1 :-).
> 
> The proprietary fglrx driver crashes my system whenever I exit the X
> server, so I've switched back to the radeon driver, but it would be nice
> if the occasional opengl program I (try to) run would work.
 
It's already available in Rawhide.  That would suggest you'll see it
as part of FC6 unless it's included earlier as part of a FC5 update.

Sean




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