On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 01:22, Rogutės Sparnuotos<rogutes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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). kernel26-lts is not supposed to work for any external modules, so this is not relevant here at all. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
