[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Looking for fglrx compatible with Mobility Radeon 9600 M10

[Jason Heeris]

Hi,

After a bit of discussion with Patrick, I've dredged the 8-7-3 code up 
from SVN and have recompiled it myself.

(My computer is not that old, dammit!)

Cheers,
Jason


Patrick Matthäi wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Jason Heeris schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After upgrading from fglrx-driver 8-7-3 to 8-12-4, my X server refused 
>> to start. Long story short, I eventually discovered that my card 
>> (Mobility Radeon 9600 M10) is no longer supported (this would have been 
>> very useful to find in the changelog, or somesuch, incidentally...).
> 
> Yes it is not supported anymore, on wiki.cchtml.com you will find the
> following (supported cards):
> MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 (M10/M11 4E50) (or not; see ATI bugzilla)
> 
> The release notes say, that it is supported, but it has been dropped
> since a while (the supported list is not very accurate..), that's ATI/AMD.
> 
>> By the way, the kernel module version and the fglrx-driver version in 
>> lenny do not match up, which is what my initial problem was about. It 
>> was only after compiling the fglrx modules manually that I discovered 
>> the problem detailed here...
> 
> Yes, 8-12-4 just entered Lenny a few days ago, a binNMU for the
> fglrx-modules have been scheduled.
> 
>> [1] 
>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fglrx-devel/2009-January/000379.html
> 
> Exactly.
> 
>> However, as far as I can tell, the open source drivers 
>> ('xserver-xorg-video-ati' and MESA for 3D) work pretty poorly, so I 
>> would like to find a copy of the last version that worked with my card, 
>> which I believe is 8-7-3 (although perhaps there's a more recent one in 
>> between).
> 
> I could provide you the fglrx 8-7-3 driver, but it will not work with
> further kernel versions and also has a big huge of bugs.. okay 8-12 also ;)
> 
>> Can anyone help? It's not on the Debian Snapshot server, and I can't 
>> find any other download anywhere. I would really appreciate any help on 
>> this.
> 
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