ATI support

Dario Castellarin dacstp at tiscali.it
Tue Mar 20 22:26:57 CET 2007


Well, that was once needed because OpenGL overlay was causing Xv 
crashes, at least on x86_64, but that bug was solved since the release 
of 8.34.8

Dario

Justin Conover ha scritto:
> Just a habit I guess :)
>
> On 3/20/07, *Dario Castellarin* <dacstp at tiscali.it 
> <mailto:dacstp at tiscali.it>> wrote:
>
>     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> <mailto: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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