Running 2.6.27 on F11 instead of 2.6.29

[Suvayu Ali]

Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
> 2009/6/8 suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>:
>> 2D acceleration is good enough for me. I don't even run compiz. But
>> the open source drivers can't even boot to runlevel 5 for my hardware,
>> let alone a working desktop. I had to do a text install to get F10 on
>> this box. I got a working gui only after I got the fglrx stuff from
>> RPMFusion installed from runlevel 3. However I have to admit the last
>> time I tried the open source drivers was early this year (around
>> February-March). Have they changed enough to warrant another try?
>>
> The radeon driver has seen a lot of improvements in the past monhs.
> I'd recommend trying at least with a F11 livecd (they are installable,
> too). You graphics hardware is at least supposed to be supported by
> the radeon driver, as the other R700 generation cards are.
> 
> My RadeonHD 3650 works fine in Fedora 11.
> 
Happy to report that the XFCE LiveCD for F11 x86_64 booted without any 
hiccups.  :)  Thanks for all the replies.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.