Upgraded the kernel to the latest, then tried to rebuild the proprietary
Catalyst driver for a Radeon HD 4550 on a Dell Optiplex 980.
The install dies, with a c error. Anyone else out there succeed in
building one on the 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5-x86_64 kernel? I went to the ATI
website, and the "installation instructions" include that it needs a)
32
bit software (which? dunno) and b) a couple of Xfree86 packages (huh? why?
dunno, probably they haven't updated this page in years).
Btw, it's fine for single head, but a relatively ordinary dual-head setup,
with what Nvidia calls "individual desktops" ("spanning"
seems to mean the
same thing on both monitors). The xorg driver seems to work for single
head, but no joy with dual head.
For that matter, anyone have any contacts? I'm still mousing around the
ATI website trying to find an appropriate contact.
mark
This is a known issue. The next proprietary ATI driver is due to be released
sometime next month and will correct it.
----- Original Message -----
| Upgraded the kernel to the latest, then tried to rebuild the
| proprietary
| Catalyst driver for a Radeon HD 4550 on a Dell Optiplex 980.
|
| The install dies, with a c error. Anyone else out there succeed in
| building one on the 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5-x86_64 kernel? I went to the
| ATI
| website, and the "installation instructions" include that it needs
a)
| 32
| bit software (which? dunno) and b) a couple of Xfree86 packages (huh?
| why?
| dunno, probably they haven't updated this page in years).
|
| Btw, it's fine for single head, but a relatively ordinary dual-head
| setup,
| with what Nvidia calls "individual desktops" ("spanning"
seems to mean
| the
| same thing on both monitors). The xorg driver seems to work for single
| head, but no joy with dual head.
|
| For that matter, anyone have any contacts? I'm still mousing around
| the
| ATI website trying to find an appropriate contact.
|
| mark
|
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| http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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James A. Peltier
Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director
Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
Phone : 778-782-6573
Fax : 778-782-3045
E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca
Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca
MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com
Does your OS has a man 8 lart?
http://www.xinu.nl/unix/humour/asr-manpages/lart.html
BTW: If you choose the previous kernel entry, build the driver you will see
that it built fine. The issue is that some functions were removed/renamed in
the latest kernel update that the driver uses.
----- Original Message -----
| Upgraded the kernel to the latest, then tried to rebuild the
| proprietary
| Catalyst driver for a Radeon HD 4550 on a Dell Optiplex 980.
|
| The install dies, with a c error. Anyone else out there succeed in
| building one on the 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5-x86_64 kernel? I went to the
| ATI
| website, and the "installation instructions" include that it needs
a)
| 32
| bit software (which? dunno) and b) a couple of Xfree86 packages (huh?
| why?
| dunno, probably they haven't updated this page in years).
|
| Btw, it's fine for single head, but a relatively ordinary dual-head
| setup,
| with what Nvidia calls "individual desktops" ("spanning"
seems to mean
| the
| same thing on both monitors). The xorg driver seems to work for single
| head, but no joy with dual head.
|
| For that matter, anyone have any contacts? I'm still mousing around
| the
| ATI website trying to find an appropriate contact.
|
| mark
|
| _______________________________________________
| CentOS mailing list
| CentOS at centos.org
| http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
--
--
James A. Peltier
Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director
Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
Phone : 778-782-6573
Fax : 778-782-3045
E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca
Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca
MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com
Does your OS has a man 8 lart?
http://www.xinu.nl/unix/humour/asr-manpages/lart.html