Free ATI driver no longer works for my old video card

[sglafata]

The ATI free driver doesn't work any more for my old video card in MGA3. I have had to resort to the VESA driver in order to get my graphics to work at all. At least in MGA2, the free ATI driver worked. Anybody gotten their ATI video to work with older cards? Would it be possible to downgrade the free ATI driver to the one used in MGA2 without having mgaonline prompt me to upgrade?

FYI - My video is a ATI All-In-Wonder X600 PCI Express card (RV370).

[wintpe]

you can stop automatic upgrades of a specific rpm with the
/etc/urpmi/skip_list (from memory, so it might not be 100% correct).

so thats one way to install a specific rpm and stop auto update.

However the bigger problem will be installing an older rpm that has dependencies that may no longer exist in M3.

if you can get the source rpm and rebuild it, on the newer OS

rpmbuild --rebuild atidriver.src.rpm

for this you need to install rpm-build package, and its dependencies.

I go through this every year with thunderbird 2.0.0.24, but thats an app, and survives updates no problem.

so I understand why you want to do this, however, would think a slightly newer ati card off ebay may be less pain if thats an option.

a driver may have issues everytime you subscribe to updates, as this package may not work after say a kernel update, and you may need to rebuild again.

ive no idea what sort of mileage or pain you will get from this, but this is the road you will need to go down, if you want to do what you are suggesting.

regards peter