No GLX with FC5 and Mobility Radeon 9600.

Douglas Phillipson phillipd at oem.doe.gov
Tue Mar 28 16:59:39 UTC 2006



James Wilkinson wrote:
> 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.
> 

So the instructions for running Aiglx on FC5-test3 don't work for the 
release version?

Reference:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/AiglxOnFedora

Doug P




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