ATI legacy driver

Zsolt Udvari udvzsolt at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 09:04:06 CET 2011


I've created, named xorg-driver-video-fglrx-legacy-9.x. Can we do
anything with "xorg-xserver-server(videodrv-abi) <= 6.0" ?
Thanks.

Zsolt

2011/1/17 Elan Ruusamäe <glen at delfi.ee>:
> On 17.01.2011 09:24, Zsolt Udvari wrote:
>>
>> Hi list!
>>
>> I've an ATI Radeon X1200 video card, and the latest fglrx driver
>> doesn't support this, the homepage says:
>> "The following products have been moved to the legacy software support
>> structure"
>>
>> Is there in PLD linux any "legacy software" to this? I doesn't found.
>> If isn't exist, how can I create this?
>> I've an idea: create xorg-driver-video-fglrx-legacy1 package (with
>> .spec) and it's an older version of fglrx driver and it conflicts with
>> the main fglrx driver. And can create after this legac2, etc. packages
>> like xorg-driver-nvidia.
>
> may i suggest not to use legacy1, legacy2, legacy3 names,
> as it becames eventually confusing which one is older legacy, legacy1 or
> legacy3?
> especially if the oldest one is removed, due not being compatible with any
> xserver,
> and you have left with legacy3 which has no relation what card it's for...
>
> but rather something mentioning the major version:
> xorg-driver-video-fglrx-10.x.spec
>
> and for nvidia ones:
> xorg-driver-video-nvidia-legacy.spec ->
> xorg-driver-video-nvidia-legacy-71.x.spec
> xorg-driver-video-nvidia-legacy2.spec ->
> xorg-driver-video-nvidia-legacy-96.x.spec
> xorg-driver-video-nvidia-legacy3.spec ->
> xorg-driver-video-nvidia-legacy-173.x.spec
>
>> Thanks!
>> Zsolt
>
> --
> glen
>
>


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