Re: First impressions of 8.18.6

[Thomas Steffen <steffen dot list dot account at gmail dot com>]

Hi Flavio!

On 10/26/05, Flavio Stanchina <flavio at stanchina dot net> wrote:
> Old story. My binary packages are built for Debian testing/unstable;
> they might work on Ubuntu if all the dependencies are in sync at a given
> time, but you're much better off building your own from source.

Yes, I know: for everything C++ binary compatibility is a wild dream.

> However, as you noticed, the packages currently don't build from source
> on Ubuntu because there's a problem with the Qt headers. IIRC there was
> the same problem on Debian for a while, but there's a patch here:
> http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-archive/msg00762.html

Indeed, that does the trick. I also fixed a few 64bit problems in
fglrx_public.c, but it did not make any difference. Maybe there are
more in the binary .a?

So my remaining problems are:

I need to copy an older version of libdri.a over the one from Ubuntu
breezy, because the latest revision (something between 6.8.2-75 and
6.8.2-77) broke fglrx.

And when the X server terminates or I try to switch the console, my
graphics card is left in a bad state, and I have to reboot. But at
least that seems to work reliably now (SysReq hack!), and the system
does not freezy any more.

Nevertheless, this version is a big improvement over the last one for
me. This could become my everyday X-server. Great work!

Thomas