Am 07.07.2010 20:25, schrieb Michael Gilbert: > On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:04:38 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: normal >> >> I request assistance with maintaining the fglrx-driver package. >> >> The package description is: >> Display driver for the ATI recent Radeon and FireGL graphics cards. >> . >> This package provides 2D display drivers and hardware accelerated OpenGL >> for X.Org version 7.1. For 3D acceleration to work, you will need to >> compile the fglrx kernel module for your kernel: see the fglrx-source >> package. Note that the driver will work without the kernel module, but 3D >> acceleration will be disabled. >> . >> The driver can work with plain mesa libGL, but some applications may require >> the proprietary libGL. This library is shipped in the fglrx-glx package. >> . >> This driver is not free. As an alternative, you may try the newest free >> driver xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd. >> . >> This driver will replace parts of your X11 and Mesa system. >> >> My further TODO in the team: >> - Better dkms integration > > are there specific issues with dkms? if so, i can take a look at them. > from my experience dkms works just fine so far.
Yeah there is a "little" bug. If you are running e.g. on kernel 2.6.32-3 and now you install 2.6.32-4, the fglrx modules will be rebuild for 2.6.32-4 and installed to /lib/modules/2.6.32-4/dkms/updates, but they are built against 2.6.32-3 and if you reboot with 2.6.32-4 fglrx will fail, because of a different symbol versions. > >> - Forwarding and solving of bugs (if possible) > > is there a good procedure for this? amd has no "official" public > support system from what i've seen. lately i've been suggesting users > forward their bugs to http://emailcustomercare.amd.com, which probably > just falls into an abyss. is there a better way? This is one way, the best one is to report bugs here: http://ati.cchtml.com/ It is "unoffical", but reviewed by AMD. > >> - Better documentation of well known bugs and their workarounds > > that would be nice, but i probably don't have the time to work on that. Dito, that's why I try to search additional maintainers :) -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer E-Mail: pmatth...@debian.org patr...@linux-dev.org Comment: Always if we think we are right, we were maybe wrong. */
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