[clug] ATI drivers and Ubuntu/linux in general

[Chris Smart]

Somewhere I got lost among the replies.. but maybe this is worth
something. No, I haven't done that, but it might be possible. I don't
think this has anything to do with kernel, right? We're talking Xorg
driver here, not dri, so the driver might not compile against a new
version of Xorg - or a newer GCC. Of course I could be totally off mark.

But, it shouldn't be too hard to try as apt-get build-dep
xserver-xorg-video-ati should still bring in all required dev libs. Then
just try your old package with checkinstall or something?

-c

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 16:16 +1000, Andrew Janke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Before I embark upon an odysey that may or may not work (but _should_
> :) has anyone out there in CLUG land compiled a "Hardy" kernel
> (2.6.24) against the ATI driver version that is in Feisty? (kernel:
> 2.6.20)  xserver-xorg-video-ati: 6.6.3-2ubuntu6.