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Chiefcooker

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Registered: 2006-02-14

Posts: 29

old ati radeon driver

hy, is it possible to provide a fglrx-legacy package for users like me with a <r300 sti card. because a <r300 card is strong enough to run for example xgl. but in the repo there is only a new fglrx driver. and i cant put a newer one in my old notebook.
mfg chief

raduned

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From: Ro

Registered: 2006-07-10

Posts: 11

Re: old ati radeon driver

Why don't you try DRI? it worked on my RV280, not very fast and with some issues i never solved before giving up on xgl, but it was up and running in a few minutes after I read a howto on the forum.
Good luck!

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: old ati radeon driver

ATI/AMD do not maintain a legacy driver, so we do not have one in our repos.  fglrx has a history of using deprecated kernel routines for much of its work - trying to maintain a legacy kernel module would become a soup of patches - provided we can even patch it to properly work anymore.