On 6/6/2012 6:39 PM, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > On 2012-06-07 01:16:27 +0200 Eleanore Boyd<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 6/6/2012 6:09 PM, Kristian Poul Herkild 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? >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Kristian Poul Herkild >>> >> ........what? What are you talking about? The LFS system, the Linux >> kernel, >> the drivers, what? >> >> And no binary can be called a piece of junk unless it's 1: ancient, >> or 2: >> buggy. Plus, it's rather rude to say such things on this list, so >> please >> clean up your language. >> >> Elly >> > Don't get your knickers wet, Elly. And don't mail me directly again. > Only reply to the list. If your mail client cannot do that, please > change mail client. > > The 'binary piece of junk' I referred to was the proprietary, binary > blob from AMD known as AMD Catalyst (drivers for Radeon graphics > cards), as is evident from the subject line. They are known to be > buggy, and besides that all proprietary, non-free, closed-source, > binary-blob software qualify as junk - by definition. > > Do you prefer a different word than 'junk'? It is no worse than > 'garbage' or 'filth'. Since the driver taints my kernel (or it will, > should I get it working) it is certainly filthy, and as such at the > very least also junk. You could even say 'filthy junk'. > > What I want to know is if anybody has managed to get the proprietary, > non-free drivers known as AMD Catalyst to work on their LFS-system? > And if the answer is yes, what did you do to make it work? > > Kind regards, > Kristian Poul Herkild > > P.S. Anybody who replies directly to my private mail address will have > their mail address added to my kill-filter. Only reply to list. > Please. > I made a simple remark, and asked you rather simply to respect technology instead of trash it.
And for the record, my client sent the email to the list and to you. So, who in fact is getting their knickers wet? You, or me? Elly -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
