Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel

[Kevin J. Cummings]

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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