On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Alex Finch wrote:
>
>> Phil,
>>
>> Thanks for the information. When I went to the AMD site and entered the
>> hardware type of one of our machines  (Radeon X300) I was offered a package
>> from 2009 which did not work. However today I found a machine with some more
>> modern hardware, and entered that and I was offered a more recent package.
>> This worked on the machine with the more modern hardware, but not on the
>> older hardware, so it seems that one can no longer use fglrx on this older
>> kit.
>>
>>  I tried using your package on elrepo but unfortunately I got a conflict:
>>
>> yum install kmod-fglrx fglrx-x11-drv
>>
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package fglrx-x11-drv.i386 0:11.9-1.el5.elrepo set to be updated
>> ---> Package kmod-fglrx.i686 0:11.9-1.el5.elrepo set to be updated
>> --> Processing Conflict: kmod-fglrx conflicts module-init-tools =
>> 3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>
>> Do you have any idea of how I should fix it?
>
> You need to update module-init-tools to a later version.  This version is in
> fastbugs.
>
>  yum --enablerepo=sl-fastbugs update module-init-tools
>
> -Connie Sieh

And updating to SL 5.7 would be a good idea, in general. Anytime you
start bringing in repositories from another repo or source, it's
unfair to rely on it to be compatible with an out of date release of
other system software.