xorg-fglrx or kmod-fglrx?

[marvin_ita]

I'm changing my video card from nvidia to ati. I uninstalled the kmod-nvidia proprietary drivers and I want to install AMD proprietary drivers.
But when I search in repos (rpmfusion) I find that there are kmod-fglrx and xorg-x11-drv-fglrx: what's the difference, since they're the same driver version?
I think it's better to install the xorg ones, that are kernel independent... am I wrong?

Thanks.
Mattia

[leigh123linux]

kmod-fglrx = just a kernel module for fglrx

xorg-x11-drv-fglrx & xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs = driver package

You need all three packages.

[marvin_ita]

Oh, I see... I thought that the xorg-x11-drv-fglrx was a stand alone package like xorg-x11-drv-ati...

Thanks for the clarification.

[AdamW]

The difference is that most drivers don't have kernel components to them. Only really the NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers do. So only they need to have extra packages containing the kernel bits.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by AdamW

The difference is that most drivers don't have kernel components to them. Only really the NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers do. So only they need to have extra packages containing the kernel bits.

Not true, you have forgotten about drm

/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i810/i810.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i830/i830.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/mga/mga.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/r128/r128.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/savage/savage.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/sis/sis.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/tdfx/tdfx.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/via/via.ko

[AdamW]

I didn't forget, I was just trying to gloss over that bit so the point looked nice and simple .

But those are actually shipped as part of the kernel, not part of the drivers. This is a bit of a weird way of doing things, though. Still, it's an odd area, because the DRM stuff and the driver stuff is really quite separated. I know the openchrome developers say "we don't work on the DRM stuff or even really know much about it" when you ask them anything about 3D issues.