[Mageia-dev] ANN: x11-server 1.12 landing on cauldron

Thu Jun 7 21:57:42 CEST 2012

Thomas Backlund skrev 7.6.2012 22:50:
+> Dick Gevers skrev 7.6.2012 21:04:
+>> On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:28:26 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote about
+>> [Mageia-dev] ANN: x11-server 1.12 landing on cauldron:
+>>
+>>> For those of you using the proprietary AMD fglrx driver, I will
+>>> upload fglrx 8.98 (Catalyst 12.6beta) as it's the first one to
+>>> support the new x11-server.
+>>>
+>>> But Amd has dropped support for any hw older than HD5000 in the
+>>> new driver so you need to switch to the free driver if you have
+>>> older hw. (there is some rumours of a fglrx-legacy in the works,
+>>> but I dont know when/if it will show up, or what it will support)
+>>
+>> Thanks. It works for Cauldron quality. But is has a nasty splash:
+>> 'AMD
+>> Testing
+>> use only'
+>> though transparent - in the lower righthand corner the size of 4 desktop
+>> icons which goes away only during use of some tabs in catalyst control,
+>> when the big '2' is on top of everything. Alas.
+>>
+>
+> Thats because it is not signed upstream.
+>
+> You can try to backup old file:
+> mv /etc/ati/signature /etc/ati/signature.orig
+> and copy the /etc/ati/signature from previous package
+> (I saw it on the net, but I'm not sure it actually will work)
+> and add it to /etc/ati/signature on your system.
+>
+> For simplicity I have an extracted signature here:
+> http://tmb.mine.nu/Mageia/Cauldron/testing/fglrx/signature
+>
+> and reboot.
+>
+> if it does not work, just rename the backup file back and reboot again
+>
+
+And you can then try the sed hack here if you want:
+http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/20055/howto-amd-fglrx-in-wheezy/
+
+
+--
+Thomas
+
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