No GLX with FC5 and Mobility Radeon 9600.

James Wilkinson fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Tue Mar 28 16:47:10 UTC 2006


Kedar Patankar wrote:
> I have a emachines M6805 laptop. Its a Athlon-64 machine with 512MB RAM and
> Mobility Radeon 9600 (M10) and built-in 54g (broadcom) based wifi. I was
> very interested to try out FC5 because xorg 7 is supposed to have
> accelerated 3D support for the radeon and the new broadcom wifi driver is
> also included in FC5.

You were misinformed about the 3D acceleration. It's coming, but it
isn't stable yet. So it wasn't included for FC5.

See, for example,
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg01463.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-March/msg00717.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-March/msg00737.html

How is the wifi working?

James.

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