Is there a Catalyst Driver for Kernel3.2.10?

Christopher Svanefalk christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 09:14:46 UTC 2012


On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net> wrote:

>
> > On 21-03-12 04:36, Jean Jacques wrote:
> > > I cannot search the driver in YUM.
> >
> > The Catalyst driver lives in the rpmfusion repo so if you don't have
> > that installed then you first need to add it. Information how to do
> > that can be found at: http://rpmfusion.org
>
> Except that it's broken on 3.2.9 and later kernels.
>
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2208
>
> kevin
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Kevin,
>
> Thanks for posting the bug report.  I have been chasing a problem with a
> "ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648"  Do you know if the support of these
> types of cards will be incorporated into the Fedora repositories or are
> there opensource problems that prohibit their use.  Maybe we need to
> come up with an 'opensource' sticker that the manufacturers can use.
>
> Greg
>

As long as the software itself falls under a license permissible for the
Fedora Project, it should be alright. There are cases, however, where
projects fall under a permissible license but depend on or contain modules
which are not permissible in Fedora. An example of this is VirtualBox.


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Best,

Christopher Svanefalk
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