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

[Manuel Wolfshant]

  On 12/14/2010 12:36 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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My colleague verified today the packages on an ATI HD 2400Pro. Please 
find below his replies:

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

No (FYI: the tar bundle provided by ATI original one has an useless 
blacklist installed as /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-fglrx.conf ). I have 
removed this file.



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

No



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

Yes, on video initialization of Xorg the PC hungs and must be rebooted 
from the button.




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.

original rpm from ati:

         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00b7f000)
         libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x0783d000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x0090c000)
         libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00110000)
         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00a98000)
         libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00bda000)
         libatiuki.so.1 => /usr/lib/libatiuki.so.1 (0x00253000)
         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00a66000)
         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00d1e000)
         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00a91000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x008ed000)
         libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00bd5000)
         libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00ac8000)

elrepo package:

         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00beb000)
         libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1 (0x00110000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x0090c000)
         libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00ad0000)
         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00a98000)
         libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00bda000)
         libatiuki.so.1 => /usr/lib/fglrx/libatiuki.so.1 (0x001d4000)
         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00a66000)
         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00d1e000)
         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00a91000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x008ed000)
         libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00bd5000)
         libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00ac8000)