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[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 21:21 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):
> 
> > Throughout its history, fglrx has supported _only_
> latest-and-greatest
> > chipsets.
> 
> For the record, the fglrx driver that _did_ support that video chipset
> used to be available here:
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.22.5-i386.run
> 
> If you could find someone who made an archival Internet-downloadable
> copy of ati-driver-installer-8.22.5-i386.run, that would be the one.
> Of
> course, since it's proprietary, AMD/ATI was able to put out the word
> that 'This may not be hosted elsewhere, just where we choose to offer
> it.  And thus when we take it down, you'll not be able to get it any
> more.  Have a nice day.'

There's no way in hell it would be compatible with a modern-day Xorg.