On 11/28/2013 01:23 AM, Simon Geard wrote: > On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 11:17 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: >> I'm working my way throught the Xorg installation and getting close to >> installing the drivers. Xorg hasn't quite caught up yet with my chip >> which is Radeon HD 8610G, and I'm going to use the proprietary driver >> from ATI. I'm asking for advice on when to install it. It's a >> pre-compiled binary and installs with a script. Should I install it >> when I install drivers for Xorg, or should I wait until I'm finished >> with Xorg and install it before I start Xorg for the first time? >> >> This driver comes with a QT based configuration utility. As I look at >> the BLFS book, I see Qt-4.85 and Qt-5.1.1. In what circumstances are >> both of these necessary? I'm thinking of building 5.1.1 because of its >> recentness. I'm not that familiar with Qt--in fact I'm quite ignorant >> of it--and want to install what is necessary for my system to work. > Qt5 *is* more recent - but because of that, there's a good chance it > won't work with the Radeon config tool. Different major versions of Qt > aren't binary (or even 100% source) compatible, so unless AMD have > already ported it to Qt5, it probably require Qt4. > > Unless, that is, it's statically linked, or perhaps provides it's own > private copy? I've never used the AMD proprietary drivers, so I don't > know the tool you're referring to... > > Simon. > Thanks, Simon.
It actually appears that the Qt dependency is an Ubuntu thing. I found an installation guide at AMD and the only graphics requirements are Xorg, XFree86-Mesa-libGL, XFree86-libs and fontconfig. Although this guided references Xorg-7.6, it looks like it's a bit dated in its referral to the XFree86 stuff. I don't know if anything is still name that--I'm working through the installation of Xorg now--but I suspect that the libraries are part of a standard BLFS install. I did see a *GL get installed last night when I was working. As far as Qt-4 vs Qt-5 go, it was going to be a guess in spite of your remarks. I installed the proprietary driver for my chip when I first put Ubuntu on. That was at the beginning of Oct. At that time, it was "Catalyst*10.1beta2. Last night it was Catalyst*11.3beta9.4. AMD is doing a lot of work on it. I'm belaboring this point in case any other LFS'ers get this chip. I'm really careful when it comes to recent AMD-Radeon graphics. Not knowing the incompatibility between Xorg and the recent chips, I burned up three laptops. Apparently, one of the lacks in those drivers is temperature sensing or fan management. So, I decided that until I could verify beyond a shadow of a doubt that an Xorg driver supported my chip, I was going to use the proprietary driver. When I found out that the linux version of that driver was in "beta" development, I understood why Xorg was behind. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
