Re: ati driver status?

2009/1/30 Stewart Adam <maillist(a)diffingo.com&gt;: Because you have removed the blacklist-radeon scripts !!! On hardware where radeon is "working" (or at least ,radeon detects the hardware). the plymouth boot have made the radeon drm loading within the kernel image. For that reason the initrd needs to be regenerated: (without radeon.ko and drm.ko in it) (using mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) That's been said with the 8.12 release, there is a need for a workaround for the nodes creation /etc/udev/makedev.d/40-fgrlx-dri.nodes: dri/card0 dri/card1 dri/card2 dri/card3 I think this file is created once the fglrx driver is loaded. which means that we have a circle dependency, because we need to regenerate the kernel image without the radeon loaded to have fglrx to "load", but regenerate again to have the script included in the initrd image to have fglrx to "work". (This seems needed : "On special Hardware (TM)" ) If we have the files hardcoded we could avoid this very annoying steps but it will make the switch fro driver to another more difficult. That's not the way we want. So a more interesting way would be to have another experimental package, named fglrx-bootstrap (or else) that will bundle theses scripts in an hardcoded way (still they could be edited by r-c-d) and have the initrd image regenerated accordingly... But for now the switch remains messy... (and isn't meant to be fixable easily) I've already uploaded the new ATI 9.1 binary driver, will do some investagation for few time right now. Nicolas (kwizart)