fglrx and Fedora 7 works!

[Fabio Comolli]

Hi

On 6/10/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >>
> >>> You should probably post this to bugzilla and the devel list as well.

> >>> You'll save somebody a lot of work. Thanks.
> >> Wouldn't be useful. If ATI doesn't support the latest Xorg provided in
> >> Fedora 7 there isn't much Fedora developers can do about it.
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong and out of line here, but if the latest fglrx
> > packages doesn't work with F7, can't the 3rd party repo maintainers
> > remove it in favor of an older package that does work (only in their F7
> > repos)?  Why isn't this a viable solution?  I thought that the point of
> > having 3rd party repos was to help provide packages that worked.  I
> > realize you can argue whether the fglrx package is broken or that Fedora
> > 7 breaks it, but if the previous packages work, let's package them up
> > for F7 until ATI fixes fglrx!
>
> Afaik the older ATI drivers only work with older versions of Xorg so
> your solution does not work.
>

Well, sort of. Latest fglrx version is able to use the new Xorg
version numbering and actually works with Xorg 1.2.something. Does not
work with F7 1.3.something.

> Rahul
>

Fabio



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