Xorg and ATI card query.

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 23:21, David Malone wrote:
> I then tried to get a newer version working, but the fglrx_drv.so
> from newer ATI releases are linked against a whole bunch of crud
> (libstdc++, libgcc_s, ....). I tried fudging the linker to make it
> load the FreeBSD versions of these, which got me a bit further, but
> the Linux versions of these libraries were too different for me to
> be able to get them to work.

I think this is what I saw. Such a PITA :(
So much for the platform independent promise of the driver architecture.

> The drivers for xorg 6.8.0 looked a little more promising as they
> weren't linked against so many other libraries. However, I gave up
> before building a 6.8.0 server and used the vesa driver.

Heh, I wouldn't mind VESA except my LCD monitor's native resolution is 
1680x1050 and I can't get X to do it.

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