Testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

I've just uploaded a new set of ati drivers *hopefully* compatible with xorg7, to testing. It's impossible for me to test, I havn't got an ATI card, so your feedback is vital.
What's also important about this is that they use a new naming setup.
The userspace tools and xorg stuff are in 'ati-drivers',
The kernel modules in ati-drivers-arch, and ati-drivers-archck.
So to install ati drivers, you are best to pacman -S ati-drivers-kernel, where kernel is your kernel. This will bring in ati-drivers too.
After installing, it is important that you make a symlink from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules to /usr/lib/xorg/modules, othweise direct rendering will not work.
Thankyou for your patience.
James

Hi
I have direct rendering as root but not as user,it complains about permissions denied
libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.2)
[root@arch gas]# ls -l /usr/lib|grep libGL
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 773442 Feb 20 14:30 ati.libGL.so.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 20 23:54 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 20 23:54 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 770740 Feb 19 05:43 libGL.so.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 20 13:55 libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 20 13:55 libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.060402
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 565518 Feb 12 20:47 libGLU.so.1.3.060402
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 20 13:55 libGLw.so -> libGLw.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 20 13:55 libGLw.so.1 -> libGLw.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13823 Feb 12 20:47 libGLw.so.1.0.0
[root@arch gas]# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/
total 757
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Feb 20 13:54 X11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 20 13:56 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 773442 Feb 20 13:56 libGL.so.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 21 00:26 modules -> /usr/lib/xorg/module
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