Phorogit HOWTO?

[Christian_L]

Yeah, we'll see... Would be nice if my old laptop could keep most of it's current functionality under F11. Bridgman, I really value your efforts here...

[Christian_L]

I agree. It's really a shame that they drop fglrx support for those cards when the open-source drivers just arent't that far advanced yet. I guess I'm...

[Christian_L]

Not paying enough people and not caring for decent driver support is really the same to me...


Radeonhd works already pretty well...

[Christian_L]

I never succeeded in installing fglrx on F10 from the official installer, but the method described in the link I've posted before worked for me. However,...

[Christian_L]

I guess nobody bothered to answer because these things have been discussed here multiple times before in the last months...

The fglrx developers...

[Christian_L]

You want ideas? How about these:

• They are angry because the beta driver has been leaked. And this is our collective punishment: no new

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[Christian_L]

The conf file you want is /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

To prevent the loading/crashing of the graphical display, press "Esc" at the grub...

[Christian_L]

Ah, looks easy... I'll try it when I get home.

Thanks a lot, Kano!

[Christian_L]

OK, maybe I'm just blind and stupid, but I can't find the Sticky/Readme/FAQ/HOWTO that describes how to use the files on Phorogit...
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[Christian_L]

Did you still have to downgrade libdrm and modify the initrd, or has that been fixed?...

[Christian_L]

There was a fix reported on fedoraforum
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1117703

Didn't change anything for me, ...

[Christian_L]

fglrx, 8.552, 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686, i686: installed

[Edit] Ah yes, the first line in /var/log/boot.log is this, which has been reported...

[Christian_L]

I've rebooted multiple times since the installation (with hibernation being broken...) but the problem is still there. "lsmod | grep fglrx"...

[Christian_L]

I did an upgrade to the F10 preview and installed Catalyst 8.11, which gives me a graphical display, but without OpenGL. The relevant errors are as following:...

[Christian_L]

If it's just about the Xorg version and not about lacking support for your graphics card in general, then just downgrading Xorg would probably be the...