[Fedora-xen] kmod-fglrx-xen package

[Itamar Reis Peixoto]

also ATI/AMD doesn't support beryl/compiz,

I have a ATI card on my laptop and I don't recommend ATI cards to use on 
Linux



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Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] kmod-fglrx-xen package


> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 06:34:38PM -0300, Filipe Miranda wrote:
>> Hello there
>>
>> Is there a kmod-fglrx-xen package available to use ATI X1300 and fglrx on
>> FC6?
>
> fglrx is a proprietry driver and as a matter of policy Fedora does not
> provide any direct support for these. There are 3rd party YUM repositories
> which may have hacked up versions to work with Xen, but ultimately its up
> to ATI to provide it for Xen since they're the only ones who can legally
> work on the code.
>
> The open source radeon driver doesn't support the X1300 yet,so only other
> options are VESA (no acceleration), or bare metal kernel with KVM instead
> (pending Fedora 7) of Xen.
>
> Regards,
> Dan.
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