[Bug 563] Review request: xorg-x11-drv-catalyst - AMD's proprietary driver for ATI graphic cards

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563





--- Comment #6 from Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>  2009-04-25 03:54:42 ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> ...
> > (In reply to comment #3)
> > > 1* Does this file remains needed with 9.4? (should be set as %config at least)
> > > %{_sysconfdir}/udev/makedev.d/40-catalyst-dri.nodes
> > > (in other words, Is the module capable to create it own devices on
> > > /dev/dri/card? )
> > > the file need to be removed "then" the initrd regenerated in order to test for
> > > this feature.
> > Will test at home tonight.
> What tell the testing ? 
9.4 works well without the udev configuration file, and overall the driver
seems to run much more smoothly.

> > If we get rid of these, then FreshRPM users who install RPM Fusion will have no
> > upgrade path... If we no longer wish to support this upgrade path on new
> > branches (ie, F-11), I'm OK with that but I think that we need to keep it for
> > F-9/F-10.
> Wrong., only fglrx should have kept them, not catalyst. We could also assume
> users have upgraded since now. Furthermore, according that F-11 users aren't
> supposed to upgrade from F-9 (but from a step by F-10), we can even drop it
> from F-11 fglrx package.
Okay, that makes sense - provides/obsoletes removed in the package below.

> Okay, so we need to keep it the old way, and to convert eventually convert it
> later (keeping Conflicts for now)
That will be best for now, we can implement the new scheme for fglrx once the
power management script integration in r-c-d is finished.

SPEC: http://downloads.diffingo.com/rpmfusion/xorg-x11-drv-catalyst.spec
SRPM:
http://downloads.diffingo.com/rpmfusion/xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-9.4-2.fc10.src.rpm


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