Am Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:51:40 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net>:
There's still some issues with catalyst: - the libdrm.so symlinking crap is weird, I got different reports about ati and/or xorg version of this one working - somehow the ATI driver looks in /usr/lib/dri instead of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri.
Besides that, I'd like to have some wiki documentation about the input hotplugging so people know how to tune it or turn it off if they don't want it.
Some notes from 8.55-080930a-070555E-ATI driver from the Ati beta mailing list: Additional notes Installer has changed the default policy when installing for X Version
= 7.
The libraries previously installed to /usr/lib*/xorg/ have now been moved to /usr/lib*/. Consequently, any user running the automatic install will use this new default policy. RedHat RPM installation has been updated to support this new policy. The installer is unchanged for X Version < 7. I still doubt we are allowed to redistribute the beta code Ubuntu ships. I think they got a special exception for their upcoming release. I could upload the license agreement I had to sign somewhere if someone wants to check it. If we are allowed to ship it we should start shipping a catalyst-beta pkg soon just for testing. Another issue I have run into was poor performance with the free Xorg ati driver when we changed from git code to stable release. But I haven't heard of other users running into this. Anyway I will have a look at the latest catalyst and free drivers over the next few days. Anyway I