Try: rpm --rebuild *.rpm ~Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:25 AM Subject: ATI drivers for XF4.3 (FireGL but 8500 should work) (WAS: Re: [Cooker] New Nvidia drivers for Linux (4349))
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken Mays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Eric Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:11 PM > Subject: Re: [Cooker] New Nvidia drivers for Linux (4349) > > > > I'll investigate this further. That ATI driver should work under XFree86 > > v4.3.0 and Mandrake but I don't have a 8500 card to test. May go out today > > and get a OEM one if I can to evaluate. Will let you know. > > ~Ken > > Thank you very much, very kind of you. I just had some news : apparently, > they have released new drivers for FireGL X1 card, and are backward > compatible with R200. They even talk about glibc 2.3 and XFree 4.3 in their > readme. > You just have to go on their web site, ask for FireGL drivers for Linux (not > 8500) and you have to register to be able to download them (not a problem > though, but another example of ATI lack of care of their customers nvidia's > professional card, Quadro, is supported in their drivers too...) A direct > link is here : > http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/firegl/linux/linuxfireglx1z18x00x420296.h > tml > These drivers are dated of 28/03/03 !! That's a pity we have to beg for > drivers for 8500 card... > I gave a try. The installer is a lot nicer, but I have an error at > compilation. Unfortunately, it tries to apply a patch to a kernel header, > but fails, and cannot compile the fireglx.o driver. I'll have a better look > and will report the problem. > If someone else could give a try too. > > Cheers > Eric > > >
