General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

[Bruce Labitt]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:47 -0400, David W. Aquilina wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:19:24PM -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
>>     
>>> I just got an ATI/AMD Radeon X1650 Pro video card to try to replace the
>>> onboard video on a Dell Optiplex 745 running Scientific Linux 5.1.
>>>       
>> I'm not sure how closely SL follows CentOS/RHEL, but RHEL 5.2 introduced
>> the 'radeon_tp' driver ("tech preview") with experimental support for
>> the R500/R600-based cards.
>>     
>
> SL follows pretty closely for the base packages, would be surprised if
> SL5.2 didn't also have that driver.
>
>   
As I understand SL5.2 just came out.  If one navigates their server I 
can find 5.2, but there are no direct links to the download.

I'll check the 5.2 area for radeon_tp

Can I presume that a 5.1 to 5.2 "upgrade" is not too painful? 

Bruce