On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:09:31 +0100 Kristian Poul Herkild <[email protected]> wrote:
> How on Earth does one manage to get that binary piece of junk to work? > I've tried several approaches now, and after a few weeks with no luck > getting first 12.2 and now 12.4 to work I'm about to give up. > > Has anybody managed to get AMD Catalyst drivers to work with > LFS-7.1ish? I did use it for a while but it was years ago (long before LFS 7.1). If I were to try again I'd install Xorg (maybe an old version as newer versions of Xorg always used to break frglx) then I'd recompile the kernel (maybe an old version as frglx often didn't work with the current kernel) and I would enable modules and disable some of the graphics options (IIRC it didn't like the framebuffer so no more penguins for you!) then I would install the kernel, make modules_install and leave the kernel source where it was. Reboot into the new kernel and and try and run the catalyst frglx installer. Then I'd spend a couple of days Googling on the error messages and reading posts from the Gentoo forums until I gave up again in disgust. Why did I waste my time on this junk again? Actually I may be going round this cycle again in the near future if the stories about Steam coming to Linux pan out :) Andy PS, as this topic involves Xorg it should really be discussed on the BLFS Support mailing list -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
