Re: Silly problem with binary kernel modules

[LUK ShunTim <shuntim dot luk at polyu dot edu dot hk>]

Richard W. Knight wrote:
> Andreas Lundin wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to help a friend install the fglrx drivers on his debian
> > etch opteron system. Everything runs smoothly until we try to install
> > the binary kernel modules. I simply don't know how to get apt-get to
> > install them (I use gentoo, and I'm not very familiar with debian).
> >
> > We tried various combinations of "apt-get install fglrx-kernel-<every
> > thing we could think of>" but couldn't get it to install, it just
> > complained on not find the packages. apt-cache search fglrx didn't
> > turn up anything interesting either. So how do I do it?
> >
> > He's running an unmodified kernel-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic kernel.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Andreas Lundin
> >  
> I think the FGLRX stuff is in debian rstricted. Try to find a debian
> "sources.list" with the restricted repositories for his flavor of debian
> and replace his sources.list with the new one, then run "sudo apt-get
> update". Then try to find the FGLRX stuff again with "sudo apt-cache
> search fglrx".
>
> Good Luck
> Rick Knight

fglrx is currently in unstable (aka sid) in debian, in the non-free
section; but I'm not sure a bug fix related to system hanging as X exits
is applied or not. Furthermore, it depends on xserver-xorg << 6.8.99 and
hence not installable for xorg 6.9.

Alternatively you can build debian packages very easily with the
installer from ATI itself.

I think this page has the most useful information
	http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_fglrx

Regards,
ST
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