fedora 9, kernel 2.6.25 and fglrx

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Jack Howarth wrote:
>     Does anyone have information on what the future will be for
> the ATI fglrx drivers under Fedora 9 since the linux 2.6.25
> kernel is now being used? From the section titled "Kernel 2.6.25
> and ATI driver fglrx 8.476" at...
> 
> http://www.frogge.de/pepper/patch/patch.html#fglrx
> 
> ...it appears that the Linux 2.6.25 kernel has been changed
> to coerce the non-GPL drivers into changing their license
> by restricting access to kernel symbols for non-GPL drivers.
> Does anyone know if Fedora 9's kernel disabled that change
> or will we have to wait until ATI works around the new
> limitations on compiling their non-GPL drivers under 
> the 2.6.25 kernel?
>                         Jack
> 

I files a bug against fglrx at livna when their package didn't build for 
  me on F9 Preview on x86_64, and the answer was that we had to wait for 
ATI to release a fix for the 2.6.25 kernel series.

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