New ATI driver

[Matthias Saou]

Mike Chambers wrote :

> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:00 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
> > Here you go :-)
> > 
> > http://ftp.es6.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/testing/7/
> > 
> > I don't have any hardware to test it, so feel free to post some
> > feedback!
> 
> This version doesn't work with F8 does it?  I believe due to xorg-7.3?
> As I have an ATI X1300 card and it didn't seem to work.

From what I read, this driver only supports R600 chips, and your card
would be an R500, unfortunately. See :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Processing_Units
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeonhdd.html

Matthias

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