FC9 and ATI Driver

kromberg · 10-17-2008, 09:01 AM

I am trying to install the latest ATI driver on FC9 x86_64 and I am having some problems. It is a fresh install of FC9 with the latest updates from yum. When I try to install the ATI driver for my x1650 card, I get a message to the affect that the platform/version is not support. I do not have the exact message handy, but I can post it later. Has anyone seen this before and/or know what to do to fix it?

TIA,
Keith

amani · 10-17-2008, 10:58 AM

That should not be a problem.
You can install and get into bigger problems with the fgrlx driver. If you do not then do say so.

After that you should
uninstall the ati driver from the script in /usr/share/ati..
Use the readeon or radeonhd driver by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf

kromberg · 10-17-2008, 12:23 PM

Is the 'stock' readeon driver any better than the ATI one?

hlingler · 10-17-2008, 12:59 PM

The ATI FGLRX driver only very recently was upgraded to support F9's X11R7.4/Xorg-1.5: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...189227&page=17

Still looks like a pain to hack it into usability though.

V

amani · 10-19-2008, 08:55 AM

use

driver radeon

in the device section

add more options (see howtoforge or the xorg site and man radeon )

Fedora has recent versions of X.., so it works well with
most radeons

zimon · 10-21-2008, 03:45 AM

Is the proprietary X driver still more capable in 3D graphics than the fully open source one?
At least couple of months ago it used to be, for example in Tremulous, Nexuiz and in that kind of 3D-games.

hlingler · 10-21-2008, 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zimon

Is the proprietary X driver still more capable in 3D graphics than the fully open source one?
At least couple of months ago it used to be, for example in Tremulous, Nexuiz and in that kind of 3D-games.

Only one real way to find out for sure (not opinion): install package hardinfo ("System Profiler and BenchMark") and run the FBENCH (FPU RayTracing) test, with BOTH drivers. Sync with on-line database and compare results....

Until you or someone else does such tests, it's all opinion.

V