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
