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Re: New ATI fglrx drivers work with AMD64



Many thanks, that solved the issue ))

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 21:20 -0500, Peter Nelson wrote:
> I had similar issues on i386 when using both the fglrx drivers and the 
> radeonfb console frame buffer.  Try disabling your console frame buffer 
> (or maybe loading vesafb instead of radeonfb?) and it should be fine.  
> Obviously a sub-optimal solution, but I think accelerated X11 is far 
> more important than accelerated console.
> 
> -Peter
> 
> Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote:
> 
> >I've managed to get the 64bit drivers running fine, games and
> >screensavers are now very fast ))
> >
> >However, i am experiencing screen corruption when I switch to the
> >console.
> >
> >Does anyone have similar issues?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 23:08 -0500, Peter Nelson wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi, I'd just like to give the list a heads up that the new ATI fglrx 
> >>drivers actually work with amd64.  They're only available (as usual) in 
> >>rpm's but I hacked together Flavio's debian packages and with a bit of 
> >>manual copying around it works.  Hopefully someone with a bit more 
> >>knowledge of how things like /usr/X11R6/lib vs lib64 are supposed to 
> >>work can make a clean package (I just copied stuff around untill it worked).
> >>
> >>Get from http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux64.html
> >>
> >>-Peter
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> 
> 
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