Re: ati's fglrx 8.25.18 and sid
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:35:45 +0200
Nicoco Kinlidex <nicoco@nospam.net> wrote:
> hello,
>
> i am trying to get latest ati's driver working under debian sid.
> i downloaded them from ati's website as debian repository only offers
> 8.24.8 (which are working)
> i created debian packages from the .run file, installed fglrx-driver,
> fglrx-kernel-src, ran module-assistant.
>
> $ dmesg
> (...)
> [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.25.18 [May 18 2006] on minor 0
> (...)
>
> Xorg.0.log :
> (...)
> (II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull!
> (...)
> (II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete
> (II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled
> (...)
>
> as you see, everything looks fine except :
> $ fglrxinfo
> display: :0.0 screen: 0
> OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.1)
>
> so I got back to 8.24.8 and everything works fine, EXCEPT google
> earth, which was the reason of my trying to install this new version
> of fglrx.
>
> has anyone got them working or have an idea ?
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Nicoco
>
>
See the thread "xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)" from 19 June
for some clues.
--
Liam
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