Just Checking re: ATI Radeon Video drivers ??

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Getting the driver to work from scratch is always a challenge for me. I 
seem to remember the driver does not work without installing the ATI 
XORG or fglrx rpm component. There is a config to run too.

I have succeeded every time by going back to the readme.

Regards and Happy Holidays,
C

Tom Horsley wrote:
>> Is there more drivers to add?  Is the fglrx being updated?  Is Xorg
>> creating a non-proprietary driver to replace fglrx that will have all
>> the necessary components?  Should I fuss and fume to fix something or
>> just wait until it is a complete package?  Will a complete package
>> include AIGLX capability?
>>
>> etc? etc?
>>
>> If anybody knows or at least has an opinion, would they please give me a
>> short response so I don't have extend what has become for me a major
>> project, ie installing a ATI Radeon 9600 video card and all its drivers.
> 
> I don't know about a short response to any video questions :-). If you got the
> drivers via livna rpms (or built fedora rpms from the ati source), the odds
> are good that the install didn't do everything it should have to really
> get them installed correctly.
> 
> See http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269 for all the things
> I had to do manually that the provided script somehow failed to do
> automatically. Or for the whole story of my fight with ATI drivers
> (which I finally won) see: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html
> 
> Don't know if your card is supported by the open source radeon driver, but
> if it is, that might be the way to go, I'm using the open source drivers
> now after experimenting with both, and they work fine for me (after my
> struggle :-).
>