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

[Phil Perry]

On 15/12/10 10:22, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:

> My colleague verified today the packages on an ATI HD 2400Pro. Please
> find below his replies:
>

Thanks Wolfy.

> 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.
>

Thanks for the confirmation. We'll leave it as is then, with no 
blacklist in the el5 package.

>
>
> 2. Are any kernel options required (modesetting etc)?
>
> No
>

Great, and again thanks for confirming.

>
>
> 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.
>

OK, I kind of suspected as much hence the question. In that case I think 
we'll just pull the xen variants (or rather not build for xen) as we 
also do with nvidia.

>
>
>
> 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)
>

Brilliant. Everything looks as expected there. As we've now had a few 
reports that look OK I think the packages are good to go.

Thanks again for testing and taking the time to report back.

BTW, AMD just released updated 10.12 drivers so I aim to update the 
package for the new driver release and push it straight into the main 
repo for release, hopefully sometime this weekend.

Next on the (ATI) agenda is an el6 version, and legacy drivers based on 
the 9.3 release (for both el5 / el6).