No. I tried to load ATI's flgrx driver under 4.3 and it quickly died. I suspect it depends on how the driver is written where it comes from. Unfortunately I've not had time to figure this out. Especially as the radeon driver in 4.3 seems to do what I want.
Kendall Bennett wrote: > > Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmm. I installed 4.3.0 on a crash test dummy at work today. I had > > the mga_hal.o module from Matrox for 4.2.mumble. Copied it into > > place, started X, and it seemed to load without incident - no > > untoward messages in the log files and neither the monitor nor the > > video card went up in smoke. ;-) > > Interesting. It is possible that the binary compatibility is for forward > releases only. ie: 4.3.0 can run 4.2.x and 4.1.x etc binaries, but 4.1.x > will not allow loading of future driver binaries.... > > Regards, > > --- > Kendall Bennett > Chief Executive Officer > SciTech Software, Inc. > Phone: (530) 894 8400 > http://www.scitechsoft.com > > ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~ > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
