Just Checking re: ATI Radeon Video drivers ??

William Case billlinux at rogers.com
Fri Dec 22 21:31:15 UTC 2006


Thanks Tom;

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 15:47 -0500, 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.
> 

I got the fglrx from livna, started with the Xorg radeon driver but
replaced it because some things didn't seem right (on suggestion from
mailing lists).  Still doesn't seem right.  Maybe I should go back to
radeon?

> 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 :-).

In either case, the suggestions on how and what to install are NOT clear
and concise.  All the instructions for intsalling seem to leave a lot to
personal interpretation, i.e. screwups.  That was why I was double
checking.
-- 
Regards Bill




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