[elrepo] Fglrx Drivers version 15.9 packages unofficial release are available for testing for EL7

[Manuel Wolfshant]

Hello

     As I have promised earlier this week, I am offering for testing 
purposes the most current version of the fglrx drivers, packaged for 
EL7. The packages have been built in the usual elrepo infrastructure 
buildsystem but as I am not sure that they are functional ( and , as I 
have repeatedly said , I cannot test for myself for the moment ) I have 
published them for now via my personal website.
     Therefore those who wish to test are invited to download the 
relevant packages (at least fglrx-x11-drv-15.9-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm 
and kmod-fglrx-15.9-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm ) from 
http://wdl.lug.ro/fglrx/ .
     Should you encounter an apparent freeze of the X server while it 
tries to start up, please
- login in a second, text console;
- use the command
      systemctl restart atieventsd
    to kick ATIs daemon ( at least that's what I needed to do back in 
Dec, IIRC)
- report your issue including any relevant logs ( if any.. )

     I am looking forward for feedback.

     Regards,

         wolfy

PS: the EL6 packages are also built and I have installed them on a test 
workstation. However I cannot SEE the result (as in look at the actual 
monitors) until Monday because I am not in the same location with the 
system. However everything seems fine at the first glance so I will 
probably try to push the packages Monday.





On 10/28/2015 02:58 PM, dominic at dcrdev.com wrote:
> As I mentioned I'd be willing to test as well, if needs be I can give 
> you remote access to a machine as well.
>
> Probably a naive question but since fglrx 15.9 has RHEL 7.1 support 
> out of the box, shouldn't it be compatible with systemd? Or is there 
> something specific that has to happens with the kmod drivers, that 
> differ from the AMD installer? 
>
>> If you are willing to test, I could provide updated packages for
>> testing purposes by the end of this week, but with no guarantees
>> regarding the problem that I detailed earlier