fglrx and Fedora 7 works!

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Fabio Comolli wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 6/10/07, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> > Afaik the older ATI drivers only work with older versions of Xorg so
>> > your solution does not work.
>>
>> We're in the middle of a thread where the OP says that the currently
>> released flgrx drivers don't work with F7,
> 
> Correct
> 
>> but that the older FC6
>> drivers *do* work with F7!
> 
> False
  ^^^^^

> You probably misunderstood what works and what does not work.
> In short:
> 
> * older fglrx drivers don't work with any xorg-server ever released
> for F7, both during
>  the test period than now with the final release;
> * newer fglrx drivers don't work with F7 xorg-server package, but work
> with some
>  versions released during  F7 test period (and with FC6 ones).

???  You are saying that the new fglrx drivers work when an old
xorg-server package is installed (either from an F7 pre-release package
or a current FC6 package)?  Yes indeed, I mis-understood.  My bad!

> Is it OK now? I'm not a native English speaker so please correct me if
> I did not make myself clear.

No, it was probably a combination of you and I together that screwed me
up.  B^)

>> No one is claiming that the problem is Fedora's.  ATI needs to fix their
>> drivers.
> 
> Yes, that's their fault. The binary blob within fglrx simply crashes
> with a pretty useless (for non-ATI employees) traceback.

Jose Celestino wrote:
> Moreover I tryed opening a case with ATI for this but they dismissed it.
> So it goes.

How can they dismiss a driver failure?  Unless they are claiming no
support for F7, and plan to implement it RSN (which is silly to dismiss
it, whatever happened to "solution pending"?)  I just recently read an
article (saw it on /.) about the ATI development/release process, and
how they run about 6-8 weeks each, and there are 2 overlapping release
cycles in progress at all times.  Hard to believe that they didn't see
F7 coming, OTOH, they probably can't support fixes for every release
from every distribution.

They are free to decide what the base packages are for their releases.
(Yes, proprietary software can suck when it isn't targeted to the
release it was built on.)

Do I understand it correctly that ATI and F7 are now basing on different
Xorg server revisions?  If so, F7 may be stuck in ATIs past until things
get back together.  Not a good prospect, since I'm waiting for ATI to
fix a few bugs in their drivers so MythTV displays the right colors
again.  I guess it won't happen in F7's timeframe.  Maybe F8?

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)