On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 18:11 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 29.11.2008 17:52, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:53 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> On 29.11.2008 00:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > >>> <snip...> > > Wow... A simple "No, it's not working on F10 yet because, among other > > things, the only known way to get it to work is to downgrade libdrm - > > which we think is a _really_ bad idea!" would have done just fine. > > It wasn't meant as offense. If it came over as one: sorry. No worries - I forgive you... :) > > I spent a few minutes digging on this. The hacks you mentioned appear to > > date back to releases of the ATI drivers that are earlier than what is > > currently available from AMD. > > Then you to the best of my knowledge digged into the wrong direction. > See: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205030&page=2 Indeed...! I followed this thread and found much more current information from many of the same posters. So, if I read this correctly, the only known way to work around what amounts to bad coding practice by ATI/AMD in their proprietary drivers (Sheesh! I can't believe developers still like to hard code directory paths when there's no reason to!!!) would be to use bad packaging practice. > > Perhaps it would also help if this issue was actually communicated > > someplace conspicuous on the RPMFusion site. Not everyone looking at > > RPMFusion will pick up a small paragraph at the end of a rather long > > post in fedora-announce. > > > > I'm looking at RPMFusion.org right now, and there's absolutely nothing > > there about this. But there is something in the FAQ section about why > > people _should_ install the RPMFusion nVidia and ATI drivers, and that > > in turn provides a link to the "RPMFusionSwitcher" page, which gives > > complete instructions on how to (allegedly for ATI) do it. > > > > I think the RPMFusion team would save a lot of people (let alone > > themselves) a fair amount of pain and anguish if they: > > 1) Provided status on the site (takes less time than it took for you to > > write your message > > > > 2) Asked for help, including giving a technical explanation of the > > problem(s) with libdrm in F10 and fglrx - or whatever else is the issue. > > > > Maybe then, enough people would escalate things with AMD that they might > > actually do something to fix the problem, assuming the issue is with the > > proprietary driver. If I knew enough about complex packaging of drivers > > for X, I would gladly help. Unfortunately I'm an Enterprise > > Infrastructure Architect, and am not "hacker qualified" in the X.org > > driver development area. > > Fully agreed. But that needs volunteers and people that actually do > that. most RPM Fusion contributors are already overloaded. Would you > want to help? RPMFusion Wiki Account / Profile and Bugzilla account created successfully. Glad to help where I am able. Let me know... Cheers, Chris -- ================================== By all means marry; If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. --Socrates -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
