ATI support

Dario Castellarin dacstp at tiscali.it
Tue Mar 20 18:04:31 CET 2007


At least on my system, I don't need to issue aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv 
anymore since the update to 8.34.8.

Dario

Justin Conover ha scritto:
>
>
> On 3/20/07, *Mike Chambers* <mike at miketc.com <mailto:mike at miketc.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 11:43 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
>     > Mike Chambers wrote :
>     >
>     > > Does ATI/Your Rpms support current Fedora devel (as in
>     FC7t?)?  Or do I
>     > > have to run FC6+updates+your rpms to get ATI drivers to work
>     with a
>     > > Radeon X1300?
>     >
>     > I honestly have no idea. I can't think of any reason why they
>     wouldn't
>     > run on F7 if they do on FC6, though.
>     > One thing I can tell you is that the only laptop I've tested
>     with an
>     > X1300 couldn't get the full native resolution with the free radeon
>     > driver (FC6), so I had to use the proprietary one, but XV
>     doesn't work
>     > and X often crashes right after logging into GNOME...
>
>     Well, this is actually a desktop.  I got it running via vesa on an FC6
>     +updates system, and have your ati-x11-drv package installed.  I
>     believe
>     fglrx module is loading (yes it's in my config), but no dri and maybe
>     few others.  I am going to post my config file to see if anyone see's
>     something that needs to be added to my config to get it fully
>     functional? (glx gears shows no dri and runs slow)
>
>     The .old is what FC6 configures w/fglrx.  The xorg.conf one is my
>     current that I used to have for earlier FC versions, when I used
>     to use
>     a Radeon 9000 when it was supported.  But still no dri on neither
>     config
>     file.
>
>     --
>     Mike Chambers
>     Madisonville, KY
>
>     "Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not getting any!"
>
>
>
> After you install the driver, run the following:
>
>  yum install ati-x11-drv
> aticonfig --initial
> aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
> edit xorg.conf and drop in the bottom
>
> Section "Extensions"
>         Option  "Composite" "Disable"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option  "AIGLX" "off"
> EndSection
>
>


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