[CentOS] CentOs 6.4 and video drivers

Mon Mar 11 22:47:05 UTC 2013
Gé Weijers <ge at weijers.org>

I've not been able to get a FirePro V7900 to work. This card does not use
the regular ATI drivers, so the 13.1 test driver is useless.


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Trevor Cooper <tcooper at ucsd.edu> wrote:

>
> On 03/10/2013 03:45 AM, Ned Slider wrote:
> > On 10/03/13 01:24, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> >> Akemi Yagi wrote:
> >>
> >>> Depend on how "new" your card is. :)
> >> HD 4800 series, RV770
> >>
> >>   >  More details are in this ELRepo bug report:
> >>>   http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=355
> >> So I guess I should try enabling the testing repository. Thanks.
> >>
> >> Yves Bellefeuille
> >>
> >>
> > Unfortunately older Radeon HD 4000, HD 3000, HD 2000 Series are NOT
> > currently supported as the current AMD driver does NOT support the new
> > version of Xorg in 6.4.
> >
> > So your HD 4800 series is NOT supported.
> >
> > Radeon HD 7000, HD 6000, HD 5000 Series ARE supported by the version
> > 13.1 driver currently in the testing repo. I've had a couple of reports
> > that this driver works so I'll move it to the main repo shortly. If you
> > have supporting hardware I would recommend updating to this driver
> > before performing the 6.4 update.
>
> I've read the Known Issues in the C64 Release Notes.
>
> Any thoughts on whether it's sufficient to 'exclude=xorg*' prior to
> updating
> from 6.3 to 6.4 to keep the X server compatible with AMD 4xxx series
> card/driver? Will I be the first to try this?
>
> Trevor
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Gé