ATI driver: possible without livna/ATI's huge *.run one?

[Robin Laing]

Strong wrote:
> I want to install proprietary ATI driver as the free one does not make
> 3D for me. But here I got a problem: I was searching a lot in google
> and found that the I have 2 options for me left to do this:
> 
> 1. Use livna's package;
> 2. Install huge 50Mb driver from ATI's site.
> 
> I do not want second because of the expanses on traffic (and I was
> unable to find one by their search engine for my hardware exactly:
> Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP (it is on laptop Dell Inspiron 1501) and thus
> resude its size), I would the first case but the repo.s I use (atrpms
> tigro rpmforge dries freshrpms) tell me that they are not compatible
> with the livna, because livna has some bad politics relating to other
> (these mentioned ones) repos.
> 
> So, my question is, Am I correct? If not where I can the driver for my
> F8? Big thanks for advice.
> 


I don't know if it is the same for ATI but I found that the kernel 
module from freshrpms for nvidia worked better for me.  Take a look there.

I prefer the dkms support.  I don't have to worry about kernel changes 
as I did with the livna driver.
-- 
Robin Laing