[elrepo] Announcement: EL5 New ATI (fglrx) drivers now available for testing

[Phil Perry]

Announcing the release of ATI (fglrx) drivers in the EL5 elrepo-testing 
repository:

x86
kmod-fglrx-10.11-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
kmod-fglrx-PAE-10.11-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
kmod-fglrx-xen-10.11-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
fglrx-x11-drv-10.11-1.el5.elrepo.i386.rpm

x86_64
kmod-fglrx-10.11-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
kmod-fglrx-xen-10.11-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
fglrx-x11-drv-10.11-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
fglrx-x11-drv-32bit-10.11-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

These packages provide the latest ATI Catalyst driver [v10.11] for 
Linux. The kernel module  is built to depend upon the specific ABI 
provided by a range of releases of the same variant of the Linux kernel 
and not on any one specific build, and is kABI compatible with all 
kernels from 5.3 (kernel-2.6.18-128.el5) upwards.

You may install these drivers by:

yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-fglrx


The ELRepo team wishes to thank Marco Giunta for his contributions and 
invaluable help and assistance in creating these packages.

Thank you,

The ELRepo Team.


NOTES:

These driver packages are a first test release and have not yet been 
tested. We are looking for feedback to help improve these packages.

Please uninstall any previous installations of the ATI Catalyst drivers 
before installing these packages. You may need to reinstall mesa-libGL 
as I understand the ATI package overwrites /usr/lib{64}/libGL.so.1.2

After installation, please reboot your system. The packages should 
simply work. If they don't, what did you need to fix in order to get 
them working?

Some feedback that would be useful and things we would specifically like 
tested:

1. Does the "radeon" driver (or any others) need to be blacklisted? We 
have not blacklisted any drivers in this release.

2. Are any kernel options required (modesetting etc)?

3. Can you test the xen variant on a xen kernel?

4. Please can you show the output from 'ldd /usr/bin/glxgears'. Output 
obtained when using the ATI drivers *and* our package would be even better.