xorg-x11-drv-ati problem?

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 20 09:05:24 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 08:38 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2008-09-18, 19:21 GMT, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:43 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD 
> >> 2600 Series]
> >> 
> >> I cannot get gdm to start in rawhide unless I use older versions of the 
> >> ati driver and xorg-x11-drivers.
> >
> >
> > Current ATI drivers are not compatible with any xorg server version
> > greater than 1.4.2.  There will not be xorg server 1.5 compatibility
> > until next month at the latest.
> >
> > There is a new ATI driver release as of yesterday (9-17-08) which
> > includes a slew of bugfixes, including screen tearing during xvid play,
> > but it still isnt' capable of working with xorg server 1.5.
> >
> > ATI users are best advised to use Fedora 8 at this time, which is a more
> > stable platform anyway.
> 
> Who are you to put here such authoritative statements here? There 
> are many many people using Fedora 9 (and Rawhide) with ATI cards 
> and we are pretty happy with it.

I've run F9, I've got ATI, and I've got an opinion.  If you don't like
my opinion then bite my ass.

LX

> 
> Matěj
> 




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