Re: driver for amd64 and xorg 6.9

["Michel Dänzer" <daenzer at debian dot org>]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 15:04 +0100, Flavio Stanchina wrote:
> Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> > i upgraded xorg on my amd64 unstable to version 6.9. [...]
> > however there is a problem that ati website doesn't have version of
> > their driver for 6.9. is it safe to get version for 6.8? (actually it
> > seems to me that none of their drivers is intended for 6.9)
>
> The RPMs on ATI's website are only for 6.8 and tyay don't work with 6.9.
> The ATI installer contains binaries for 6.9 that should work (at least
> on i386; AFAIK nobody tested it on amd64 yet) but you'll need to tweak
> it a bit. See Debian bug #345755 for more information.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345755

Also, ati-driver-installer*.run --buildpkg Debian/experimental may or
may not work.


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