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