[elrepo-devel] Legacy ATI 9.3 series drivers

[Phil Perry]

On 21/12/10 16:12, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> 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 ).

Indeed. I guess the difference, or reason, is that the nvidia kernel 
module is called nvidia.ko whereas the ATI driver module is of course 
named fglrx.ko and traditionally kmod package names have been based on 
the name of the module they provide. Hence the current naming. But yes, 
I agree, the naming isn't ideal.

Interestingly rpmfusion have renamed their offering from fglrx to 
catalyst at some point in the past.

Perhaps once I get the Wiki page up for these drivers and load it with 
keywords such as ATI and Catalyst that will help those searching for 
drivers.