using fglrx

Patrick fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Thu Oct 16 05:05:40 UTC 2008


Gene Heskett wrote:
> Resend, adding Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> to recipient list, I think you are the 
> udev person?
> 
> Greetings;
> 
> I have now rx'd a patch that makes the ATI fglrx-8-9 build and install on a 
> 2.6.27 kernel.
> 
> Unforch, its very slow, with screen scrolls very painful.  According to 
> Xorg.0.log, there is no dri because udev isn't makeing the /dev/dri/card0 
> (card1 through 15 it tries) devices.
> 
> What if anything, can I do about this?

Afaik there's little support on this list for proprietary drivers. Not 
sure if including a senior kernel hacker is the proper way either. I 
would try asking on the Phoronix forum where they discuss ATI's and 
Nvidia's proprietary drivers all day long: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/

Regards,
Patrick




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