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

[gilesaj]

Hi


I left out the part 
rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-5-1.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpm


I have installed the fix and I am rebooting, typing this on a Windows PC as I do 
not have mail setup on the Linux box.


 When Linux booted back up I looked in the display and it was still using the 
vesa driver.  I changed it over to the "fglrx - Vendor-supplied driver for fglrx 
cards"

I logged out of root and logged back in and in the display theVideo Card came up 
as Unknown but using the "fglrx - Vendor-supplied driver for fglrx cards"  
driver.

Now to see that it is working I started BOINC which detected the card and as ATI 
Radeon HD 4700/4800 which is great as up till now it did not recognise it.

I attached to a project that uses the GPU on the video card to crunch work 
"dnetc.net"  and the card was recognised and the application and work was 
downloaded.

The first work packet aborted because I did not have librarylibaticalrt.so but 
that is not a driver problem I just need to find out how to get that library.

I can't find out where to get this from.  There is a lot on Google about 
"Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL) but I don't want to load something that is 
going to stuff up my system ??

Any help appreciated.

Giles






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