Re: ATI release

On 6/10/07, Dario Castellarin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Justin Conover ha scritto:
> >
> >
> > On 6/3/07, *Mike Chambers* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     There was (couple days ago?) was new ati driver released and was
> >     wondering if this had been packaged (and I don't see it) or not?
> >
> >     8.37.6 is the new release it seems.
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >
> >     --
> >     Mike Chambers
> >     Madisonville, KY
> >
> >
> > I rebuilt them with 8.37.6 if you want to grab them.
> > [justin@comatose ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/jlc.repo
> > [jlc]
> > name=jlc for Fedora $releasever - $basearch - jlc
> > #baseurl=file:///home/justin/rpmbuild/RPMS
> > baseurl=http://www.justinconover.com/pub/fedora/7/RPMS
> > failovermethod=priority
> > enabled=1
> > gpgcheck=0
> > protect=0
> >
> >
> >
> Does it actually work with Fedora 7? I heard of a bug coming from the
> proprietary blob (so unpatchable) that just crashes X when loading the
> module. That's also the reason for I was waiting for the next release...
>
> Dario
>

You can use the old xorg and exclude it from yum.conf

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=156961&page=1&pp=15


wget http://ftp.cica.es/fedora/linux/core/test/6.91/Prime/i386/os/Fedora/xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.2.0-6.fc7.i386.rpm
rpm -U --oldpackage xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.2.0-6.fc7.i386.rpm