Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri dot apana dot org dot au> remarked:
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 11:53, B J E H Neubueser wrote:Hi Donovan, I saw that you were offering to provide a precompiled module for the ATI fglrx driver. I would need one for Linux version 2.6.8.1-3-amd64-generic (buildd at crested) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-9ubuntu5)) which is not an official Debian kernel, but I wonder if you (or someone you know) could nevertheless provide me with one. (I am rather a newbee and my trys to do it myself have been fruitless so far.)I'm happy to do this, but I do all my compilation on a Celeron machine, and I'm not sure what you need to do for cross compilation to the amd64 architecture. Is there a simple make-kpkg option I can use? Do I need to install any amd64 GCC cross-compilation packages?
Last I checked, ATI still doesn't provide a 64-bit fglrx driver. So unless that's changed, you may be out of luck. I was able to get Debian Sarge's XF86 4.3.0 (which is patched and supports the R350 whereas stock XF86 4.3.0 does not) to work on my Radeon 9800 Pro in Debian Pure64 (as well as standard x86 Sarge). Albeit with no 3D acceleration and a slightly less responsive-feeling 2D acceleration. FWIW, everyone I know who cares about 3D in Linux is getting Nvidia cards these days, simply because ATI still doesn't have 64-bit graphics drivers for Linux. I normally run 32-bit Sarge so that I can run fglrx. (And also because Debian lacks a fully-functional biarch AMD64 distro, but I refuse to run anything but Debian :) Later, Dan