looking for suggestions - radeon display bad
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Wed Nov 14 21:01:04 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 07:22 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > ----
> > yeppers - I'm so disgusted with the display, I haven't looked at it long
> > enough to allow it to go to screensaver.
> >
> > There's way too much to fix before I can migrate these systems to Fedora
> > 8
> >
> > Craig
> >
>
> I am running F8 from a switchover from rawhide. I want to try the new
> Rawhide version of X that was mentioned but am afraid to at present.
> There are no complaints yet on the development list.
> If I do get brave enough to switch over to early phase after the new
> release for X and the next generation, it has to beat the present washed
> out version of Fedora 8 X with the radeon driver selected. If it is just
> the radeon driver causing it, the definitely need to pass on the
> improved driver for X.
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Obviously not having the source, neither fedora nor xorg are going to
distribute the binary version of fglrx (ATI).
FWIW, it does work much better than the xorg 'radeon'
I used livna's install
Craig
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