General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 21:26 -0400, Bruce Labitt wrote:
> 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?

Yes. 5.x to 5.x+1 upgrades are heavily heavily heavily tested before the
x+1 update release. Rarely ever is there much more than a bug fix to any
core packages, and only things on the periphery (i.e., not build-time or
run-time deps of a bunch of other stuff) get any significant
version-bumps (such as firefox 3 being in 5.2 vs. ff2 in 5.1 and
earlier). The only time you might run into issues is if you've got a
significant amount of packages installed from a 3rd-party repo that
plays fast and loose...

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com