Hi Phil, Yes, I went through that route when I was using the Radeon HD5970 card in April or so---nothing but problems. I'm now using the Radeon HD5750 and am still relying on the proprietary drivers as my past experience with Elrepo drivers cost me hours of circular work. I have not visited the Elrepo pages for documentation of late, but several months ago it was deficient and, to some degree, misleading.
-Wil On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Phil Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/10/11 19:04, Wil Irwin wrote: > >> Hi Alex- >> >> While I am not committed to the ATI proprietary drivers, I have been >> forced >> to use them for a number of reasons. >> >> If you haven't noticed, since March, every month (if not more frequently), >> ATI releases an update as a rule. It is an unnecessary and very >> time-consuming effort. Other than keeping up with the updates, I have not >> found a better solution, other than changing vendors. >> >> Regards, >> Wil >> >> > Will, > > Elrepo.org has RPM packages for the proprietary ATI drivers for both SL5 > and SL6 (kmod-fglrx and fglrx-x11-drv) and these are updated monthly as ATI > release new updates. If you use these packaged drivers, updating is as > simple as running 'yum update' followed by a reboot. > > Hope that helps. >
