ATI Radeon 9200 -- should I install ATI driver?

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Fri Nov 21 01:32:01 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 13:34, Fotios Nastos wrote:
> So far my Fedora Core 1 installation is working flawlessly.  My smoothest 
> Linux ride yet.  Anyway, I'm trying to decide whether to bother installing 
> the proprietary ATI drivers from www.ati.com.  I have an ATI Radeon 9200.  
> Are there any risks with installing the proprietary driver, and removing the 
> default Mesa files? 
> 
> Thanks

Are the binary only drivers faster or have some other benefit? 
Otherwise I wouldn't risk it due to the common stability problems and
your inability to report bugs to Fedora.  You need to go to ATI for
support if you use their closed drivers.

Warren





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