[arch-general] since the fglrx legacy driver is now static - any will to make a run at getting it to work?

[David C. Rankin]

On Wednesday 02 September 2009 03:57:22 am Thomas Bächler wrote:
> David C. Rankin schrieb:
> > 	Now with the driver static, I wonder if it might not be worth looking
> > into to see if it is even feasable to try and make it work with the
> > current arch setup.
> 
> That doesn't change anything. The driver is incompatible with the
> current Xorg ABI - and if it isn't, be sure it'll be incompatible with
> the next version for at least half a year.
> 
> It is also incompatible with the latest kernel - if not, it will be with
> the next version.
> 
> ATI completely fails to keep up with Xorg and kernel development and
> simply sticks to what Ubuntu releases. Nobody in the Arch team will put
> that kind of effort in a piece of binary-blob software whose upstream
> maintainer doesn't even care.
> 

Thanks, we'll keep working with the radeonhd folks!

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