Re: ati drivers
Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 17:11 -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> > Given that the 7.0 ATI drivers are so completely borked and lots of people
> > have reported compiling the driver from the CVS source, surely some people
> > have built actual debian packages of the ATI driver from CVS source? Is such a
> > beast available somewhere?
>
> xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.5.8.0-1 in sid contains all the critical
> fixes. If that doesn't work, it's unlikely that CVS HEAD makes any
> difference (except that it's incompatible with xserver-xorg-core 1.0).
>
> If you're having problems with that, try not enabling the DRI. Future
> upstream versions will likely disable the DRI by default in some
> circumstances that are known to be problematic.
I actually don't have DRI enabled currently. That's really disappointing but
not my top priority. My top priority is to get my secondary PCI cards working
again.
I realized after I sent that message that my main concern is actually not in
the ati driver itself but in xf86Bus.c:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5443#c64
So just replacing the ati driver isn't going to help.
--
greg
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