The drivers need certain things compiled as a module, which the stock kernel did not satisfy until 2.6.13. If you wanted ATI to work before now, you had to compile your own kernel.
On top of that, the drivers are a big pain in the butt. Before AUR there were numerous packages and PKGBUILDs floating around, all of which would break whenever there was an ATI update, kernel update, or anything else that the drivers didn't like. It was nothing like dealing with the nvidia drivers. I think recently they have become more manageable, but having an ati-drviers package in extra that worked with the stock kernel would be great for everyone with an ATI card. On 10/7/05, Vinay Shastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/8/05, Philip Dillon-Thiselton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, the initial problem is getting the devs attention for more than 2 > > seconds to suggest it - there could be other problems besides that > > tho... I currently intend to continue the pkg against archck in > > [community]. If ati is added to [extra] against stock we'll have to see > > what happens... _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
