[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#542849: Bug#542849: Bug#542849: fglrx-source: fglrx:firegl_init_device_list *ERROR* Out of memory when allocating device heads

[Paul Harris]

2009/9/15 Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei at debian.org>

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Paul Harris schrieb:
> > as stated here:
> >
> >
> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.9&lang=English
> > <
> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.9&lang=English
> >
> >
> > the support for older cards has been moved to a legacy driver.
> >
> > can we see Debian support for the legacy driver?  I think this is very
> > important due to the extended lifecycle of linux computers, its likely
> > these old graphics cards will be around for quite some time into the
> future.
> >
> > This seems to be the only way to get hardware accelerated 3D graphics on
> > linux with these cards... right?
>
> Wrong. Legacy is only for windows.
>
>
Ah, which is why they state:
The Linux ATI Catalyst™ driver will only be supported in Linux distributions
prior to February 2009 for the legacy products listed above.

So can we use the older drivers with newer kernels?  Is it possible to
create a working driver based on an old release?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fglrx-devel/attachments/20090915/09a21874/attachment-0001.htm>