how to build fglrx package 8.583

[Leonid Flaks]

Stewart Adam wrote:
> On 4/30/09 4:05 PM, Leonid Flaks wrote:
>> Stewart,
>> Thanks for help! I was able to follow you advice and built
>> xorg-x11-drv-fglrx{,-debuginfo,-devel,-libs} packages.
>> I disabled rpmfusion repositories to avoid upgrade and now I want to
>> install 2 of those - xorg-x11-drv-fglrx and -libs.
>> However, dependencies call for corresponding fglrx-kmod which would be
>> provided by akmod-fglrx. How can I get that one to build for 8.583?
>>
>> Thanks for help,
>>
>> Leon
> If you look inside the xorg-x11-drv-fglrx build directory, you should 
> find a "kmod-data" tarball. Copy that to your rpmbuild/SOURCES 
> directory and use the same procedure to switch Source0 in the 
> fglrx-kmod source RPM. Once that's rebuilt, you should be able to 
> install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx and (a)kmod-fglrx together.
>
> Stewart
It was even a bit easier - I changed the version number in the spec file 
- no need to change Source0.
I was able to build and install all the packages. Thanks a lot for help!
If only this driver worked any better then the latest with this video 
card (FireMV 2400 PCIe), but that is another story ;-(

Leon