> Now with the driver static, I wonder if it might not be worth looking into to > see if it is even feasable to try and make it work with the current arch > setup. ( I know I'm not smart enough in this area to be of any use. ) The > reason I bring this up I running arch on one drive I have for my laptop, and > I'm limited to the radeonhd driver. It's getting better, but it has two > achiles heels: (1) performance, and (2) heat (lots of it). Ultimately, the > radeonhd driver will crack the black box and have a great driver, but > currently, the combination of the issues is bad enough, I keep an old copy of > suse 11 on another driver for use in my laptop, for no other reason than it > has the working fglrx driver and I can work with my laptop without the fan > noise and heat under my left palm caused by the lack of downclocking/powerdown > of the unused gpu circuitry experienced with the radeonhd driver. Even if catalyst-9.3 would work with the newly proposed kernel26-lts, it wouldn't work with xorg-server-1.6, and there's no source code for that part of the driver. The only way to use the driver would be to downgrade to xorg-server-1.5 (along with its dependencies, of which there might be a handful). -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos
