There are now 8.12 "experimental" amd64 packages available for lenny, but there are dependency problems that need to be remedied. That effort might not be any more time consuming then trying to build the kernel module from the official 8.12 ATI installer.
I built the 8.12 .deb packages using the ATI installer. I followed a recipe from a German forum that uses module assistant to build the kernel module (sorry, at work and don't have that url handy). Unfortunately some of the C code fails to compile. My running kernel is 2.6.28 and was acquired via tarball from kernel.org so there is no "kernel-headers" (and there really shouldn't need to be). This is just a wild guess as to what might be tripping up the compile.
Which is more efficient and expedient? Getting 8.12 installed via the "experimental" packages or trying to resolve the build problem?
My video card is a 4850. BTW, I also have Ubuntu 8.10 installed and its fglrx packages seem to work flawlessly (working 2D acceleration and no artifacts during video playback). How is it that the Canonical folks have this working, but not Debian??
I built the 8.12 .deb packages using the ATI installer. I followed a recipe from a German forum that uses module assistant to build the kernel module (sorry, at work and don't have that url handy). Unfortunately some of the C code fails to compile. My running kernel is 2.6.28 and was acquired via tarball from kernel.org so there is no "kernel-headers" (and there really shouldn't need to be). This is just a wild guess as to what might be tripping up the compile.
Which is more efficient and expedient? Getting 8.12 installed via the "experimental" packages or trying to resolve the build problem?
My video card is a 4850. BTW, I also have Ubuntu 8.10 installed and its fglrx packages seem to work flawlessly (working 2D acceleration and no artifacts during video playback). How is it that the Canonical folks have this working, but not Debian??
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