[elrepo-devel] Legacy ATI 9.3 series drivers

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 12/21/2010 05:54 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are now looking at releasing an ATI legacy driver based on their 9.3 
> series release (thanks again to Marco for contributing the packages).
>
> Any thoughts on the naming for this package? Our current (latest) 
> release is named kmod-fglrx and fglrx-x11-drv. Legacy nvidia drivers are 
> named kmod-nvidia-96xx and nvidia-x11-drv-96xx.
>
> So if we follow the style of naming we have used for the nvidia legacy 
> series, we would name these packages:
>
> kmod-fglrx-93
> fglrx-x11-drv-93
>
> An alternative might be:
> kmod-fglrx93
> fglrx93-x11-drv
>
> Any thoughts/preferences?
>   
I'd go with the -93 variant but I do not have strong opinions either way.
But to be honest if I was a new user in need of drivers, I'd look for 
something including "ATI" in the name, not for fglrx. Same as I would 
look for "nvidia" if I'd be using an Nvidia based video chipset. For 
instance "ati-x11-drv " as rpmforge has done in the past (together with 
nvidia-x11 drv, nvidia-x11-drv-96xx/ etc ).