On 03/11/2013 05:58 PM, Trevor Cooper 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 I would guess not because the problem is that the driver is not compatible with the kernel. The problem does not lie with the X server. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****