[elrepo-devel] ATI driver

[Fabian Arrotin]

Phil Perry wrote:
<big snip>
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've built a kmod package for the kernel module on EL5. I had to patch 
> the code to get it to build, and since CVE-2010-3081 it doesn't build 
> against any kernel earlier prior to 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5, but the module 
> does weak-link against earlier kernels:
> 
> $ find /lib/modules/ -name fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/weak-updates/fglrx/fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-229.el5/weak-updates/fglrx/fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/weak-updates/fglrx/fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.17.4.el5/weak-updates/fglrx/fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.26.1.el5/extra/fglrx/fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/weak-updates/fglrx/fglrx.ko

Cool


> What testing OS/Arch do people have available? If you have the ATI 
> drivers installed from the ATI installer, would you like to test just 
> the kmod package to make sure the kernel driver module works for the 
> time being.

CentOS 5.5 x86_64 here ( with a 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI 
Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5600 Series] )

> 
> Once I know what OS/Arch folks can test, I'll try to get those built and 
> available somewhere to test.

Good, but how will you manage the fact that the ATI installer overwrites 
some files from [base] libraries (like mesa-libGL and/or mesa-libGLU, i 
don't remember now which one) ?
That's something i'm interested in but i spend most of my $free_time on 
another project which has 6 in the name ;-)

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Fabian Arrotin