[arch-general] since the fglrx legacy driver is now static - any will to make a run at getting it to work?

[Rogutės Sparnuotos]

> 	Now with the driver static, I wonder if it might not be worth looking into to 
> see if it is even feasable to try and make it work with the current arch 
> setup. ( I know I'm not smart enough in this area to be of any use. ) The 
> reason I bring this up I running arch on one drive I have for my laptop, and 
> I'm limited to the radeonhd driver. It's getting better, but it has two 
> achiles heels: (1) performance, and (2) heat (lots of it). Ultimately, the 
> radeonhd driver will crack the black box and have a great driver, but 
> currently, the combination of the issues is bad enough, I keep an old copy of 
> suse 11 on another driver for use in my laptop, for no other reason than it 
> has the working fglrx driver and I can work with my laptop without the fan 
> noise and heat under my left palm caused by the lack of downclocking/powerdown 
> of the unused gpu circuitry experienced with the radeonhd driver.

Even if catalyst-9.3 would work with the newly proposed kernel26-lts, it
wouldn't work with xorg-server-1.6, and there's no source code for that
part of the driver. The only way to use the driver would be to downgrade
to xorg-server-1.5 (along with its dependencies, of which there might be
a handful).

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--  Rogutės Sparnuotos