[elrepo-devel] ATI driver

[Phil Perry]

On 11/12/10 15:00, Marco Giunta wrote:
> On 08/12/10 21:16, Phil Perry wrote:
>>
>> I hope to have the kmod-fglrx packages built by the weekend for both el5
>> and el6, and then we can make a start packaging the libs in an
>> accompanying xorg-x11-drv-fglrx package.
>>
>
> Hi at all,
> I've customized my spec file to new drivers requirement; you'll find it here:
>
> http://people.sissa.it/~giunta/ati-x11-drv/fglrx-x11-drv.spec
>
> It should work also on RHEL6, but I cannot try it... I've compiled only 64
> bit version, but I should work also on 32 bit, like the old one ..
>
> Thank you for kmod, I 'm testing it during weekend ...
>
>    Marco


Hi Marco,

Thanks for your spec file - I'll use this as a basis for elrepo :-)

We decided to keep the el5 and el6 repos completely separate, so I'll 
work on the el5 package first as that seems to be what most people can 
test atm. Then it shouldn't be too much work to port it over to el6 - 
the main things I'll likely need to know is any boot parameters that 
need adding to the grub kernel line (nomodeset,  radeon.modeset=0 etc) 
in order to get the driver working correctly.

Also, does anyone know which distro provided drivers need blacklisting, 
if any?