Re: fglrx-driver removed from jessie

2014-07-16 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 16-07-14 18:11, Dylan Bass schreef: > I noticed fglrx-driver has been removed only from the jessie repos. Any > reason why? It does not work with the latest Xorg: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754249 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753781#88 With regards,

Re: fglrx-driver removed from jessie

2014-07-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/07/14 12:11 PM, Dylan Bass wrote: I noticed fglrx-driver has been removed only from the jessie repos. Any reason why? The fglrx driver is closed source. AMD have to provide one for for each version of X. If they haven't updated their driver, the Debian maintainers can't provide it.

Re: fglrx-driver removed from jessie

2014-07-16 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:11:12 -0600 Dylan Bass wrote: > I noticed fglrx-driver has been removed only from the jessie > repos. Any reason why? This is the way testing's working, re-read Debian docs. -- the Lord doesn't touch many people nowadays… priests take care of that for him signature.

Re: fglrx-driver missing on jessie

2013-10-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-05 18:49 +0200, Enrico Polesel wrote: > I've just install debian jessie on a notebook and I'm not able to > install fglrx-driver (there are only the legacy version) > > According to packages.debian.org[1] that packages is not longer > available on jessie and I don't want to download it

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > The open source drivers work better (in terms of integration with the X > server) because the maintainers can adjust them to the latest changes in X > and other graphic software. Unfortunately due to the problems noted above, > they can't keep u

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/10/12 04:05 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: On 12.10.2012 23:13, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:43:32PM +0400, Roman V.Leon. wrote: Gents and Ladies :-) please advise. I have an HP notebook with Ati Radeon 4200 GPU on bo

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 12.10.2012 23:13, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:43:32PM +0400, Roman V.Leon. wrote: Gents and Ladies :-) please advise. I have an HP notebook with Ati Radeon 4200 GPU on board and sometimes i like to play old good wi

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/10/12 03:13 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:43:32PM +0400, Roman V.Leon. wrote: Gents and Ladies :-) please advise. I have an HP notebook with Ati Radeon 4200 GPU on board and sometimes i like to play old good w

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:43:32PM +0400, Roman V.Leon. wrote: >> Gents and Ladies :-) please advise. >> >> I have an HP notebook with Ati Radeon 4200 GPU on board and >> sometimes i like to play old good windows games with help of "wine" >> w

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:43:32PM +0400, Roman V.Leon. wrote: > Gents and Ladies :-) please advise. > > I have an HP notebook with Ati Radeon 4200 GPU on board and > sometimes i like to play old good windows games with help of "wine" > while my little daughter is sleeping. But recently a real dis

Re: fglrx-driver: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

2012-06-18 Thread Hor Jiun Shyong
Hi Paul, I faced the same problem of blinking cursor when using the below 3 different drivers : fglrx-driver 1:12-6~beta-1 amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run amd-driver-installer-12-3-x86.x86_64.run I then followed Issam's recommendation as below to workaround the issue and got a g

Re: fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo - any ideas?

2010-05-03 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 03/05/2010 22:49, Carlos Miranda Molina (Mstaaravin) wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:43 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, what exactly is broken ? As a workaround you could use Sid packages if Squeeze's are in bad shape. I have two mostly Squeeze (amd64, kde with desktop "effects" ena

Re: fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo - any ideas?

2010-05-03 Thread Carlos Miranda Molina (Mstaaravin)
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:43 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, what exactly is broken ? > As a workaround you could use Sid packages if Squeeze's are in bad shape. I > have two mostly Squeeze (amd64, kde with desktop "effects" enabled) machines > running Sid's fglrx at the moment and they s

Re: fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo - any ideas?

2010-05-03 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 03/05/2010 11:43, Camaleón a écrit : On Mon, 03 May 2010 01:48:02 -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: This sucks. Stupid closed source drivers cause such problems. Any workaround I can do? I need to build the fglrx driver for debian squeeze (ati radeon hd 4550 card), but I just saw this bug saying t

Re: fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo - any ideas?

2010-05-03 Thread B. Alexander
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Zachary Uram wrote: > This sucks. Stupid closed source drivers cause such problems. Agreed. Specifically, the fglrx driver. I don't have problems with nvidia, but when fglrx-9-12 came out, it broke compiz, so I reinstalled 9-11, and put it on hold. I haven't upgr

Re: fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo - any ideas?

2010-05-03 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 May 2010 01:48:02 -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > This sucks. Stupid closed source drivers cause such problems. Any > workaround I can do? > > I need to build the fglrx driver for debian squeeze (ati radeon hd 4550 > card), but I just saw this bug > saying the packages have been removed f

Re: fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo?

2010-02-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-24 13:39 +0100, Zachary Uram wrote: > I need to build the fglrx driver for debian squeeze (ati radeon hd > 4550 card), but I just saw this bug saying packages removed from > testing: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=56 > > So the packages referred to here: http://w

Re: fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesnt detect FireGL5200 on Thinkpad Z61p

2007-12-06 Thread robin putters
> > I just tried it in my Thinkpad Z61M (Mobile X1400) and it seems to be > > working well in 2D. > > > > Anthony > > I've switch from vesa to the radonhd driver and it worked instantly on > my Z61p/FireGL5200. > Although I cannot see a difference. > > Does anyone have success/experience with any d

Re: fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesnt detect FireGL5200 on Thinkpad Z61p

2007-12-05 Thread Bruno Voigt
Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 03 Dec 2007, Bruno Voigt wrote: > >> robin putters wrote: >> >>> Not yet, but work has started on 2D acceleration, and the driver is >>> developing rapidly. In a couple of months(weeks?) time, you will have >>> much better driver than vesa ever was, and probably

Re: fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesnt detect FireGL5200 on Thinkpad Z61p

2007-12-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Dec 2007, Bruno Voigt wrote: > robin putters wrote: > > Not yet, but work has started on 2D acceleration, and the driver is > > developing rapidly. In a couple of months(weeks?) time, you will have > > much better driver than vesa ever was, and probably better in 2D than > > fglrx. And you wi

Re: fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesnt detect FireGL5200 on Thinkpad Z61p

2007-12-03 Thread Bruno Voigt
robin putters wrote: > Not yet, but work has started on 2D acceleration, and the driver is > developing rapidly. In a couple of months(weeks?) time, you will have > much better driver than vesa ever was, and probably better in 2D than > fglrx. And you will be doing the radeonhd driver developers a

Re: fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesnt detect FireGL5200 on Thinkpad Z61p

2007-12-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Bruno Voigt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> the newer fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesn't anymore detect my >> Thinkpad Z61p FireGL5200 graphics. >> >> The last working version was 8.40.4-2, >> which unfortunately doesn't work with linux kernel 2.6.23.x .. >> >> What is this cause, wha

Re: fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesnt detect FireGL5200 on Thinkpad Z61p

2007-12-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Bruno Voigt wrote: > Hi all, > > the newer fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesn't anymore detect my > Thinkpad Z61p FireGL5200 graphics. > > The last working version was 8.40.4-2, > which unfortunately doesn't work with linux kernel 2.6.23.x .. > > What is this cause, what can I do about it? > > TIA, >

Re: fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesnt detect FireGL5200 on Thinkpad Z61p

2007-12-03 Thread robin putters
On 12/3/07, Bruno Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > robin putters wrote: > > On 12/3/07, Bruno Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> the newer fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesn't anymore detect my > >> Thinkpad Z61p FireGL5200 graphics. > >> > >> The last working version was 8.40.4-2, > >> which unf

Re: fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesnt detect FireGL5200 on Thinkpad Z61p

2007-12-03 Thread Bruno Voigt
robin putters wrote: > On 12/3/07, Bruno Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> the newer fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesn't anymore detect my >> Thinkpad Z61p FireGL5200 graphics. >> >> The last working version was 8.40.4-2, >> which unfortunately doesn't work with linux kernel 2.6.23.x .. >> >> Fire

Re: fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesnt detect FireGL5200 on Thinkpad Z61p

2007-12-03 Thread robin putters
On 12/3/07, Bruno Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the newer fglrx-driver 8.43.2-1 doesn't anymore detect my > Thinkpad Z61p FireGL5200 graphics. > > The last working version was 8.40.4-2, > which unfortunately doesn't work with linux kernel 2.6.23.x .. > FireGL cards are still not supported wit

Re: fglrx driver v 8.42.3

2007-11-19 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Kaloyan M. Penev wrote: > Hi, > > I have been having a ton of grief with my fglrx driver and the fact that > it requires libstdc++5, so I was quite excited to see that a new driver is > available. However, when I try to run their installer to build a debian > package: > > sh ./ati-driver-installe

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-14 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 14.01.2007 18:25: > My original post was about Ati proprietary fglrx driver. Then Mathias > proposed free radeon driver, but with it also no direct rendering. Sorry I couldn’t help you anymore. > Since > this driver is free software, maybe I should file a bug repo

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-14 Thread Marko Randjelovic
My original post was about Ati proprietary fglrx driver. Then Mathias proposed free radeon driver, but with it also no direct rendering. Since this driver is free software, maybe I should file a bug report about this? My Etch system is fully upgraded. I am not sure if it's a bug of xorg driver

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-03 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Mathias Brodala wrote: Is this module loaded? If it is not, then adding it to /etc/modules might be enough. It is linked statically. Also, module radeon is loaded. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.18-3-amd64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep CONFIG_AGP /boot/config-2.6.18-3-amd64 CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AG

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-03 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Why not use the fglrx package, It works fine on my Radeon 9600 Sjoerd Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Marko. > > Marko Randjelovic, 03.01.2007 11:14: >> Mathias Brodala wrote: DESCRIPTION radeon is an Xorg driver for ATI RADEON based video cards. It contains […] hardware 3D ac

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-03 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 03.01.2007 11:14: > Mathias Brodala wrote: >>> DESCRIPTION radeon is an Xorg driver for ATI RADEON based video >>> cards. It >>> contains […] hardware 3D acceleration (experimental on R300 and R400 >>> series >>> cards), >>> >> >> (From the radeon manpage.

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-03 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Mathias Brodala wrote: The Gentoo is outdated then: DESCRIPTION radeon is an Xorg driver for ATI RADEON based video cards. It contains […] hardware 3D acceleration (experimental on R300 and R400 series cards), (From the radeon manpage.) My Radeon 9600 has an RV350 chip. And

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-02 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 02.01.2007 22:17: > Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Could you try the radeon driver? I’m not much experienced with fglrx since >> I haven’t used it for ages. >> >> What is the output of the following commands after you changed to radeon? >> >> $ lsmod | grep radeon $ l

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-02 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Mathias Brodala wrote: Could you try the radeon driver? I’m not much experienced with fglrx since I haven’t used it for ages. What is the output of the following commands after you changed to radeon? $ lsmod | grep radeon $ lsof /dev/dri/card0 Regards, Mathias All right, but I am not sure if

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-02 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 02.01.2007 18:15: >> Not sure about amd64, but Direct Rendering works with 9600 on my machine. >> (Running i386.) Could you attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and >> /var/log/Xorg.0.log > I attached the files. Could you try the radeon driver? I’m not much experienced w

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-02 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Mathias Brodala wrote: Install the debhelper package. This helped to make packages, however even when upgrading with them, again no xv and no dri. Not sure about amd64, but Direct Rendering works with 9600 on my machine. (Running i386.) Could you attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/X

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-02 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 02.01.2007 16:57: > With fglrx-driver package from debian, I didn't have direct rendering, > and xv did not work, so I have downloaded > ati-driver-installer-8.32.5-x86.x86_64.run from Ati site. However, > building of Debian package fails > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# s

Re: fglrx-driver installation failed

2006-10-10 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
T wrote: > On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:29:47 +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > >> I'm trying to install the fglrx driver for my >> ATI card on my Etch system with Xorg 7. > > me too, Etch system with Xorg 7. > >> After installing the packages >> module-assistant, fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-sr

Re: fglrx-driver installation failed

2006-10-10 Thread T
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:29:47 +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > I'm trying to install the fglrx driver for my > ATI card on my Etch system with Xorg 7. me too, Etch system with Xorg 7. > After installing the packages > module-assistant, fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src > and running 'aticonfi