Dear Friends,
Many thanks to Lars for the files.
Lars has the driver working, but not the kernel modules for 3d.
I can, with no effort, have the fglrx driver for 2d.(never been an issue -
perhaps I was unclear - by "working, I mean a full module load with
functional 3d, nothing less, since that is the design objective of the
driver. Note that the usual blurb is "if x works but no 3d, kernel module is
not loading.)
Finally, one can build and load the kernel module from either the grml
sources, or the ati site. This is big progress, as only the grml sources
worked in .7. The good news on this is that the behaviour of the live cd and
the install are exactly the same - whether grml-x -module fglrx or modprobe
fglrx, I get the same result.
The bad news is that that result is best described as the screen slowly
blanking to a white mess of nothing.
Notes:
same for all versions of xorg, 7 and 7.1.
3d works perfectly in grml 7 on this box, with xorg 7.0, so there is no issue
with 7.0, in se.
only the grml version works in .7, any attempt to use the ati packages does
not allow the build of a loadable module.
obviously, the ati installer works fine in sid when sid is installed via the
etch installer, although I have not tested it with xorg 7.1.
Please read the word "works" as in strict english, to wit, function as per
design, i e, 3d is provided by fglrx libs, since the purpose of the driver is
to provide both 2d and 3d acceleration.
So, why does the driver work in grml 7 but not 8?
glxinfo.txt is from the .7 install.
Will keep exploring.
Best,
m
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