Free ATI drivers for Christmas? (Linux.com)

Free ATI drivers for Christmas? (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 3, 2007 6:27 UTC (Mon) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
In reply to: Free ATI drivers for Christmas? (Linux.com) by gravious
Parent article: Free ATI drivers for Christmas? (Linux.com)

Not that I'd know much about the projects except as an user, but I think it's usually enough to get the latest DRM kernel drivers and just compile them against the latest kernel, then take the latest X.org DDX driver (assuming one has a recent X.org, which Ubuntu 7.04 does not anymore have) and Mesa (from where the DRI driver comes from).

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building is quite a good start for interested people, and I updated it some time ago since the instructions didn't work as such with my Ubuntu and it was useful to make some additions. It covers DRM, libdrm and Mesa DRI drivers, additionally one wants to get eg. git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/avivo/xf86-video-avivo for the R500/R600 DDX driver.

Though I think it may very well be one needs to install xorg-xserver from git too, since I've been hearing something about this new PCI infrastructure or something...

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