fglrx drivers broken under fc7

[Patrick]

On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 07:54 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 11:06 +0200, luca porcu wrote:
> > 2007/6/1, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.msbb.uc.edu>:
> > >    The fglrx drivers appear to be quite broken for
> > > fc7 at the moment. The ones in http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/testing/7/x86_64/
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > don't use the testing driver, use the driver released on livna, and
> > install an old version of this package: xorg-x11-server-Xorg
> > 
> > for example this xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.8.fc6.i386.rpm
> > you can download it from this list of mirrors
> > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc6&arch=i386
> > 
> > after installed this package you can use the fglrx driver on Fedora 7.
> > 
> > Don't use yum to remove and install this package but use this:
> > 
> > rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.8.fc6.i386.rpm --oldpackage
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > rpm -e --nodeps  xorg-x11-server-Xorg
> > rpm -i xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.8.fc6.i386.rpm
> 
> I haven't followed this thread, although I should had because I also
> have an X1300 (although for i686 system) that never worked during fc7
> testing.  And if not already mentioned, the reason fglrx doesn't, is
> because ATI's current driver, doesn't detect the xorg-x11-server-Xorg
> version correctly.  

This has been fixed in the version 8.37.6. But since this new driver
blows up on F7 it can not be used. Sigh, nice quality control & testing
ATI.

Regards,
Patrick