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 timcuthBraves FanPremium
join:2000-09-18
Pelham, AL
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1 edit | reply to yazdzik
Re: ATI Linux Catalyst drivers I didn't really understand, either. However, I had conversations with the guy in Arch Linux who keeps fglrx working with the kernels and I know for a fact he patches the driver to keep it working. I spoke with the developers of my current distro several times with the question, "If it works in Arch, why can't it work in Siduction?" Their answer was that if the vanilla driver doesn't work with the current kernel, too bad - just use the open source driver.
Also, the Debian Wiki says that fglrx does not currently work with sid.
So, what I gather from all this is that Arch (and Ubuntu and Sabayon) make an effort to make fglrx work with their kernels, while Siduction and Debian do not.
Tim
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 markofmayhemWhy not now?Premium
join:2004-04-08
Pittsburgh, PA
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| It has a lot to do with Xorg server as well.
Nice read: »wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst
BUT, the great thing about Arch is how transparent everything is... so how does Arch get the installer to work!?!?
»aur.archlinux.org/packages/ca/ca···PKGBUILD
That is the magic.
So we have a download from Arch for an ati_make and a makefile_compat and the driver itself from AM... Ubuntu???
»launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+so···ubuntu1/
Hmmmm.... So the driver itself is patched/worked/maintained by Canonical. Ubuntu is a Debian distro... this should be able to be broken down and installed on Siduction.
The Arch linux make file was altered:
said by Vi0L0 :
it is ati's code from their make.sh file, modified a bit to fit our arch linux system, used inside PKGBUILD
And Arch linux included makefile_compat patch is simplistic (looks to make 2.6 kernel's available for use):
quote:
--- 10.10/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/Makefile 2010-09-22 09:15:33.000000000 +0200
+++ 10.10/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/Makefile 2010-10-01 17:57:21.057820899 +0200
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
-DFGL_GART_RESERVED_SLOT \
-DFGL_LINUX253P1_VMA_API \
-DPAGE_ATTR_FIX=$(PAGE_ATTR_FIX) \
+ -DCOMPAT_ALLOC_USER_SPACE=$(COMPAT_ALLOC_USER_SPACE) \
ifeq ($(KERNELRELEASE),)
# on first call from remote location we get into this path
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