Re: [CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread m . roth
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > >>  You can also use the nVidia driver package as part of rpmforge or >> rpmfusion which uses DKMS to build the driver for you on each reboot. > > You don't have to build for each kernel update if you use kernel > versi

Re: [CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: >  You can also use the nVidia driver package as part of rpmforge or > rpmfusion which uses DKMS to build the driver for you on each reboot. You don't have to build for each kernel update if you use kernel version independent, kABI-trackin

Re: [CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier wrote: | > | > - Original Message - | > | James A. Peltier wrote: | > | > This is a known issue. The next proprietary ATI driver is due to | > | > be | > | > released sometime next month and will correct it. | > | > | > | Oh, *great*. So I w

Re: [CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread m . roth
Todd Denniston wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote, On 10/08/2010 02:55 PM: >> James A. Peltier wrote: >>> This is a known issue. The next proprietary ATI driver is due to be >>> released sometime next month and will correct it. >>> >> Oh, *great*. So I wait a month before I can get his system running

Re: [CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread m . roth
James A. Peltier wrote: > > - Original Message - > | James A. Peltier wrote: > | > This is a known issue. The next proprietary ATI driver is due to be > | > released sometime next month and will correct it. > | > > | Oh, *great*. So I wait a month before I can get his system running a > | s

Re: [CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread Todd Denniston
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote, On 10/08/2010 02:55 PM: > James A. Peltier wrote: >> This is a known issue. The next proprietary ATI driver is due to be >> released sometime next month and will correct it. >> > Oh, *great*. So I wait a month before I can get his system running a > security-fixed kernel...

Re: [CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread James A. Peltier
No problem. It was 6 hours of troubleshooting for me. This is certainly why I hate proprietary drivers. I haven't had any problems with nVidia that I can recall. - Original Message - | James A. Peltier wrote: | > This is a known issue. The next proprietary ATI driver is due to be | >

Re: [CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread m . roth
James A. Peltier wrote: > This is a known issue. The next proprietary ATI driver is due to be > released sometime next month and will correct it. > Oh, *great*. So I wait a month before I can get his system running a security-fixed kernel Btw, while I was waiting for a reply, I created an acc

Re: [CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread James A. Peltier
BTW: If you choose the previous kernel entry, build the driver you will see that it built fine. The issue is that some functions were removed/renamed in the latest kernel update that the driver uses. - Original Message - | Upgraded the kernel to the latest, then tried to rebuild the |

Re: [CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread James A. Peltier
This is a known issue. The next proprietary ATI driver is due to be released sometime next month and will correct it. - Original Message - | Upgraded the kernel to the latest, then tried to rebuild the | proprietary | Catalyst driver for a Radeon HD 4550 on a Dell Optiplex 980. | | The

[CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread m . roth
Upgraded the kernel to the latest, then tried to rebuild the proprietary Catalyst driver for a Radeon HD 4550 on a Dell Optiplex 980. The install dies, with a c error. Anyone else out there succeed in building one on the 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5-x86_64 kernel? I went to the ATI website, and the "instal