Bugzilla – Bug 118772
Support ATI proprietary display drivers in sax
Last modified: 2005-09-27 22:16:54 UTC
I don´t know how is it with nvidia drivers, but SAX2 doesn´t support all the options for the "fglrx" driver. I had a hand-written xorg.conf, and after upgrade to RC1 I got a much shorter xorg.conf where much of the options for the graphics driver had disappeared. If I click on "options" in SAX2 I only get 3 of them, while the reade for the ATI driver shows much more.
fglrx is due to license reasons not part of the 10.0 distribution. we are not supporting ATIs binary driver because of that reason. NVidia provides an installer and we are able to include the driver. I prepared configuration profiles which can be used like this: sax2 -m 0=fglrx -b FGLRX_DualHead_DriverOptions -a this will produce a good base for using fglrx but is not supported
With "support" I don´t mean including the driver with the distro, but just support it in SAX2. ATIs installer just installs the driver but it doesn´t create the appropriate xorg.conf. Can´t you just provide an entry "ATI proprietary driver (has to be installed)" in the SAX2 device selection list which enables support for the "options". Most of the (power)users have to install the proprietary driver anyway and so they can´t use SAX2 any more.