On Tuesday 13 March 2007 23:21, David Malone wrote: > I then tried to get a newer version working, but the fglrx_drv.so > from newer ATI releases are linked against a whole bunch of crud > (libstdc++, libgcc_s, ....). I tried fudging the linker to make it > load the FreeBSD versions of these, which got me a bit further, but > the Linux versions of these libraries were too different for me to > be able to get them to work.
I think this is what I saw. Such a PITA :( So much for the platform independent promise of the driver architecture. > The drivers for xorg 6.8.0 looked a little more promising as they > weren't linked against so many other libraries. However, I gave up > before building a 6.8.0 server and used the vesa driver. Heh, I wouldn't mind VESA except my LCD monitor's native resolution is 1680x1050 and I can't get X to do it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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