Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Wed Aug 20 15:11:06 UTC 2008
Kevin Martin wrote:
> FWIW, I've got an x1600 running on my Acer laptop and have NEVER been
> able to get compiz to work correctly (either using the fglrx or the
> proprietary ATI drivers). This is with F8.
My laptop has a Mobility Radeon x1600. According to the chipset
mappings, this is an M56 chipset (not an Rxxx) and is only supported by
radeonhd. I used to use fglrx with this chipset on FC6.i386, but since
I upgraded to F9.x86_64 the only driver that works for me is the radeon
driver. According to the man files, this is backwards and only radeonhd
should work for me.
One minor problem I have with this chipset is that while X is running,
the virtual consoles are illegible. They work, but I cannot see the
text legibly when I type in one, so unless I remember which user is
logged in on which console, they are not useful. If I kill the X
server, they become legible again. Strange. I never had this problem
using the fglrx driver on FC6.
> Kevin
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