Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

[Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On 8/17/09, thveillon.debian <thveillon.debian@googlemail.com> wrote:
>  A piece of advice, if you are running a 2.6.30 kernel the testing fglrx
>  won't build, you have to upgrade xorg and fglrx stuff to Sid. That's
>  what I am running right now and it works fine. Read about "package
>  pinning", "/etc/apt/preferences" to keep a mixed system clean.
>
>  Ati 9.7 fglrx installer won't build either, and (gentoo) patches
>  floating around are no good with this version (might work with 9.6).
>
Thank you for the suggestions. I guess I'll stick with 2.6.26 for now.
Liviu