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Re: Silly problem with binary kernel modules

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 12:12 +0800, LUK ShunTim wrote:

Richard W. Knight wrote:

Andreas Lundin wrote:


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.


[...]


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. 


Does that apply to kernels older than 2.6.15 (which isn't supported by
any fglrx release yet)?


Furthermore, it depends on xserver-xorg << 6.8.99 and hence not installable 
for xorg 6.9.


He's running etch, so that wouldn't be an issue. But there are no
packages for amd64 in Debian yet.


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


That's indeed good advice, as is to check out
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html .


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