Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:47:43PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Even if the discharge of a firearm is illegal, doesn't mean that making one is. The hack that you posted is not dangerous, imo. As you point out, it is just a random string of numbers. However, applying this random string of numbers

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 May 2007, Tim Wood wrote: On 07 May 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 07 May 2007, Tim Wood wrote: My thanks for all the comments. I tried the latest ATI driver 8.36.5 but the included check.sh shows the Xserver as 1.3.0 and there is no target for that. In regard to the

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-08 Thread robin putters
BTW: Why is the latest fglrx driver only available for i386? AMD64 is just at 8.31.xx http://packages.debian.org/fglrx-driver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Joe Hart wrote: Tim Wood wrote: I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 giving me the full 1680*1050 resolution. The problem now as reported in

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Jörg-Volker Peetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The newest fglrx-driver from ATI 8.36.5 supports kernel 2.6.20.x. But for the other problem, the detection of X.org 1.3.0.0, I'm not sure. From my experience fglrx works with kernel 2.6.20 (amd64). But, it cannot use xserver-xorg-core 1.3.0. So you

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread robin putters
On 5/7/07, Tim Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. There is lots of information in the BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/fglrx-driver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Wood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Wood wrote: I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 giving me the full 1680*1050

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dominique Dumont wrote: From my experience fglrx works with kernel 2.6.20 (amd64). I would recommend using 2.6.21 on new HP laptops. Not sure about this particular one, but on some models ACPI is totally broken with anything before 2.6.21-rc5. And

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Wood wrote: Tim Wood wrote: I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 giving me the full

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Linas ½virblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But, it cannot use xserver-xorg-core 1.3.0. So you will have to hold xserver-xorg-core to 1.1.1-21 until (at least) the next release. It can use 1.3.0 just fine, it just refuses to do so because of a dumb version check performed by the driver.

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dominique Dumont wrote: If it's a dumb check, I guess I should try also to re-build the fglrx driver *once* xserver-xorg-core 1.3.0 is installed. To make it work _without_ the hack? No, it will not help. The check is performed by fglrx_drv.so,

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linas Žvirblis wrote: Dominique Dumont wrote: From my experience fglrx works with kernel 2.6.20 (amd64). I would recommend using 2.6.21 on new HP laptops. Not sure about this particular one, but on some models ACPI is totally broken with

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Linas ½virblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To make it work _without_ the hack? No, it will not help. The check is performed by fglrx_drv.so, which is not built, but distributed in binary form, and it has the check hardcoded. Ok. Thanks for the info. -- Dominique Dumont Delivering successful

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: After a bit of investigation, I just want to point out that the hacks that you provided are illegal. They directly violate the ATI license agreement that one agrees to when installing the proprietary drivers in the first place.

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linas Žvirblis wrote: Joe Hart wrote: After a bit of investigation, I just want to point out that the hacks that you provided are illegal. They directly violate the ATI license agreement that one agrees to when installing the proprietary

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Wood
My thanks for all the comments. I tried the latest ATI driver 8.36.5 but the included check.sh shows the Xserver as 1.3.0 and there is no target for that. In regard to the HP Nx 8420 itself, it is 3 months old, ACPI works on both the 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 kernels in the 686 and AMD64 versions.

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 May 2007, Tim Wood wrote: My thanks for all the comments. I tried the latest ATI driver 8.36.5 but the included check.sh shows the Xserver as 1.3.0 and there is no target for that. In regard to the HP Nx 8420 itself, it is 3 months old, ACPI works on both the 2.6.18 and 2.6.20

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Wood
On 07 May 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 07 May 2007, Tim Wood wrote: My thanks for all the comments. I tried the latest ATI driver 8.36.5 but the included check.sh shows the Xserver as 1.3.0 and there is no target for that. In regard to the HP Nx 8420 itself, it is 3 months old,

Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-06 Thread Tim Wood
I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 giving me the full 1680*1050 resolution. The problem now as reported in Xorg.0.log: (II) Module fglrx:

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Wood wrote: I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 giving me the full 1680*1050 resolution.