those close source drivers worth the trouble ?

On 6/19/07, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:

> Alberto Hernando wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install the propietary ati drivers with x.org-7.2 to get
tv-out
> > (GATOS doens't work here). Has anyone been able to do it?
>
> The proprietary fglrx driver requires libstdc++.so.5. To get this
library,
> install gcc-3.3, as the book says. The ATI site says that fglrx-8.37.6
> supports Xorg-7.2, but I cannot verify it, because my video card is too
old
> and no longer supported.
>
> Also, there is an issue with DRI driver directory in the book: everyone
else
> has /usr/lib/dri, and only BLFS uses /usr/lib/X11/modules/dri (and the
path
> is different in Mesa-Lib and Xorg!). I don't know for sure whether this
is
> relevant for the users of fglrx.
>
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I spent several days tracing through the installer and the replicated its
behavior.

Here is a script and patch that I use for a manual install of the ati
closed
source X drivers.  Please note that I use CLFS x86_64 multi-lib, xorg 7.1
installed under /usr.  If you have a pure LFS 32 bit system you will need
to
adjust just about all of the source and destination targets, and DO NOT
use the
patch.

While this was tested using version 8.36.5 from ati, nothing in the
package
layout has really changed between it and the current version.

Also if you are using the current rc kernel then there is a module build
error
( with 64bit that I know of ) that is fixed by simply commenting out the
offending include statement.

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