ATI driver installation

[Russell Miller]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Oh, and I forgot: The driver you can get from ATI is a completely different
> driver than the one in Fedora, not an update. It is binary-only and
> proprietary, whereas the one in Fedora is Free Software / Open Source, i.e.
> comes with source code and is freely modifiable. And the proprietary driver
> is reported not to work on Fedora 10. In addition, if you really want to
> use that driver, you should use the packages from RPM Fusion's nonfree
> section, never the manufacturer's scripts which always make a mess of your
> system. GNU/Linux does not work like Window$, you should always get your
> software, and especially drivers, from a package repository for your
> distribution where possible (preferably the official one, then well-known
> addon repositories like RPM Fusion and only as a last resort a repository
> provided by the developers themselves), avoid manufacturer-provided
> installers like the plague!
>
>   
The properietary driver can be made to work with Fedora 10 - I did it 
(though it did STOP working after a while).  The open-source drivers 
don't support all of the cards out there (my 4650HD, for example).  ATI 
released the specs for that chip, though, so hopefully...

--Russell
>         Kevin Kofler
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