David, You might also want to look at the catalyst package on AUR catalyst 9.4-1 AMD/ATI kernel drivers for Radeon brand cards. Stock kernel http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22899 Not sure if it will do any better for you than the crippled 9.3 driver you mention. Dwight On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:00 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Listmates, > > My 3rd install of Arch is on my x86_64 laptop (Toshiba 205D). Unfortunately I > have an ATI Radeon 1200 in it and ATI - SUCKS. > > (Not to mention they have just royally screwed Linux over by dropping all > support for the R300-R500 series cards while the last driver ATI released [the > 9.3 driver] is crippled as hell for many cards) > > I'm currently working to get the radeon driver up and going and when I'm done > I'll look into compiling the last good fglrx driver (8-9 release) for Arch. I'm > not that great of a programmer, so if there are any Arch programmers here that > want to take a look, I could sure use the help. > > The package I will work with is the September '08 driver package you can > obtain at the ati site under previous releases: > > ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run > > You can extract the files with: > > ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --extract > > If anyone wants to take a look, 2 sets of eyes are always better than 1. > > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > Rankin Law Firm, PLLC > 510 Ochiltree Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > www.rankinlawfirm.com >
