[CentOS] CentOs 6.4 and video drivers

Mon Mar 11 21:58:57 UTC 2013
Trevor Cooper <tcooper at ucsd.edu>

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