Re: ATI FireGL V5200, proprietary and open source drivers
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On 07/28/08 16:26, Jim McCloskey wrote:
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>
> These results are achieved by installing the latest libdrm and mesa
> libraries (libdrm2, libgl1-mesa-dri, libgl1-mesa-glx, libglu1-mesa,
> mesa-utils, libgl1-mesa-dev) and crucially by installing up to date
> versions of the kernel drm modules from the git repository at
> freedesktop.org. This last sounds intimidating, but fortunately it has
> been made easy by Debian/Ubuntu developer Tormod Volden, who has
> provided a script here:
Does this infer that you need a graphical console, DRM or a kernel
frame buffer?
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/xorg-server/xorg-pkg-tools/files
>
> called `easy-drm-modules-installer'. This script calls git to download
> the latest development snapshots, compiles the modules against the
> running kernel and installs them. Rebooting causes those modules to be
> used rather than the current kernel modules. This is, obviously,
> recent development software and so one has no right to expect
> stability, but so far for me at least there have been no problems.
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