Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 29.11.2008 17:52, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:53 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 29.11.2008 00:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
>>> Come to think of it, the fglrx drivers are also missing. ATI/AMD just
>>> released a new version of these on 11-18 as well.
>> If you get them to work in a proper way(¹) let the RPM Fusion packagers 
>> know via http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org. But they right now afaics simply 
>> don't work on F10.
>>
>> See also:
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-November/msg00014.html
>>
>> """
>> Please note that the graphics drivers from AMD are not yet available in
>> the repositories as it seems they don't work with F10 right now. If you
>> know how to make them work let us know, then we'll try to ship them as
>> an update as soon as possible.
>> """
>>
>> (¹) -- there are dirty hacks known to make them work (you should not use 
>> them if you can't find them on your own). Those require one installs the 
>> libdrm from F9 -- but that (obviously) is nothing RPM Fusion can or 
>> wants do, as we don't want to mess up peoples systems
> 
> Wow... A simple "No, it's not working on F10 yet because, among other
> things, the only known way to get it to work is to downgrade libdrm -
> which we think is a _really_ bad idea!" would have done just fine.

It wasn't meant as offense. If it came over as one: sorry.

> I spent a few minutes digging on this. The hacks you mentioned appear to
> date back to releases of the ATI drivers that are earlier than what is
> currently available from AMD.

Then you to the best of my knowledge digged into the wrong direction. 
See: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205030&page=2

> Perhaps it would also help if this issue was actually communicated
> someplace conspicuous on the RPMFusion site. Not everyone looking at
> RPMFusion will pick up a small paragraph at the end of a rather long
> post in fedora-announce.
 >
> I'm looking at RPMFusion.org right now, and there's absolutely nothing
> there about this. But there is something in the FAQ section about why
> people _should_ install the RPMFusion nVidia and ATI drivers, and that
> in turn provides a link to the "RPMFusionSwitcher" page, which gives
> complete instructions on how to (allegedly for ATI) do it.
> 
> I think the RPMFusion team would save a lot of people (let alone
> themselves) a fair amount of pain and anguish if they:
> 1) Provided status on the site (takes less time than it took for you to
> write your message
> 
> 2) Asked for help, including giving a technical explanation of the
> problem(s) with libdrm in F10 and fglrx - or whatever else is the issue.
> 
> Maybe then, enough people would escalate things with AMD that they might
> actually do something to fix the problem, assuming the issue is with the
> proprietary driver. If I knew enough about complex packaging of drivers
> for X, I would gladly help. Unfortunately I'm an Enterprise
> Infrastructure Architect, and am not "hacker qualified" in the X.org
> driver development area.

Fully agreed. But that needs volunteers and people that actually do 
that. most RPM Fusion contributors are already overloaded. Would you 
want to help?

Cu
knurd