General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Arc Riley <arcriley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't advise on how to go about upgrading since I'm completely unfamiliar
> with "Scientific Linux" ...

  From what I'm told, Scientific Linux is basically CentOS plus custom
packages and some tweaks.  And CentOS, of course, is basically Red Hat
Enterprise Linux minus some trademarked material.  According to
Wikipedia, CentOS/RHEL 5 was released in March 2007.  Is that really
considered "extremely out of date" now?  Yikes.

  One of RHEL's goals is version stability over time, so it's unlikely
major changes to the X server are going to appear in it.  If the
driver changes are self-contained enough, the new driver might get
backported.  But if everything else really does need updating, too, it
sounds like the driver needs a lot of supporting infrastructure
changes, so that's unlikely, too.

-- Ben