Am Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:51:40 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> There's still some issues with catalyst: > - the libdrm.so symlinking crap is weird, I got different reports > about ati and/or xorg version of this one working > - somehow the ATI driver looks in /usr/lib/dri instead > of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri. > > Besides that, I'd like to have some wiki documentation about the input > hotplugging so people know how to tune it or turn it off if they don't > want it. > Some notes from 8.55-080930a-070555E-ATI driver from the Ati beta mailing list: Additional notes Installer has changed the default policy when installing for X Version >= 7. The libraries previously installed to /usr/lib*/xorg/ have now been moved to /usr/lib*/. Consequently, any user running the automatic install will use this new default policy. RedHat RPM installation has been updated to support this new policy. The installer is unchanged for X Version < 7. I still doubt we are allowed to redistribute the beta code Ubuntu ships. I think they got a special exception for their upcoming release. I could upload the license agreement I had to sign somewhere if someone wants to check it. If we are allowed to ship it we should start shipping a catalyst-beta pkg soon just for testing. Another issue I have run into was poor performance with the free Xorg ati driver when we changed from git code to stable release. But I haven't heard of other users running into this. Anyway I will have a look at the latest catalyst and free drivers over the next few days. Anyway I

