Package: fglrx-driver Severity: normal I install the package on a new Lenny amd64 system (Xeon CPUs). It would be really helpful if there were more information about how everything works and what needs to be done to use the driver. Some specifics:
1) README.Debian says "Further information can be found at http://www.ati.com/ -- look for the "Drivers & Software" page and follow links to the Linux drivers." The URL is semi-obsolete, and trying to follow these instructions led, after much hunting, to a downloadable driver. It did not lead to installation instructions. Searching the site produced only the unhelpful Linux FAQ. 2) README.Debian says "After you have installed the packages, you'll also need to install a suitable kernel module to enable 3D acceleration." This sounds as if I can skip this if I don't care about 3D acceleration. Will the driver work without the 3D module? 3) How do I need to change xorg.conf (and possibly other things) to get this to work? Is it supposed to be found and work automatically? What is the name of the driver? 4) Both fglrx-glx and fglrx-modules* describe themselves as providing the display driver. Huh? I'm guessing the former provides the xorg modules, and the latter provides the kernel modules. a) If that's true, it would be helpful to clarify it. b) fglrx-glx says you need to build from fglrx-source; is using an appropriate fglrx-module* a substitute for that? c) again, if I don't care about 3D, can I skip the modules? 5) Are the -686 modules appropriate for amd64 under Xeon? 6) For amd64 do the drivers need to be built or run in some kind of 32 bit compatibility mode? I ask because fglrx-glx-ia32 got pulled in automatically (along with a bunch of other 32 bit stuff), and also because of the -486 and -686 package names. At any rate, it's not working for me yet, even after adding Driver "ati" to my xorg.conf device section. I got that idea from http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo. I discovered it from an ATI driver download page. I come at this with some experience with the nvidia proprietary driver; I'm guessing the ATI stuff works similarly. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
