On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:22PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 10/03/07, Chris Jones <jonesc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> > >> Thanks for the qquick reply, Chris. I'm using the Vesa driver. Should > >> I switch to Radeon? > > > >I have no personal experience with ATI hardware, but I would say almost > >certainly yes. The vesa driver doesn't (as far as I know) have any 3D > >capabilities. > >You should probably consider installing the ATI fglrx if you want decent > >performance with ATI hardware (yes, I know its closed source ... Make you > >own > >decision. For me, with nvidia, I *have* to install the nvidia driver since > >the OSS nv driver has zero 3D performance, and I need 3D performance for > >work > >reasons.) > > > >cheers Chris > > > > I'm googling fglrx now. I have no problem with installing proprietary > software: if somebody developed it and licensed it for legal usage, > then why not? Of course I would also prefer to use and to promote open > source code, but I'll not cripple my system in the absence of such > code. M. Jones is correct, you need the Radeon proprietary driver. The good folks at Livna have made it available. Enable the Livna repository; see http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/UsingLivna. Then, to see what's available, run: yum list \*fglrx\* You need a kmod- etc package and a xorg-x11-drv-fglrx package, as appropriate for your system. Since the xorg-x11-drv-fglrx package requires the kmod package, run yum install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx and you will get both. I have found out that my repo isn't always up to date on kernels. So I occasionally get something like: --> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6 for package: kmod-ntfs --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6 is needed by package kmod-ntfs To deal with that, I simply wait until my repository is up to date. Of course, you could switch repositories, or use the "mirror" line in your yum configuration instead of a specific repository. > > As per the instructions at http://www.fedorafaq.org/ I drop to > runlevel 3 after installing kmod-fglrx via yum. I try to run > ati-fglrx-config-display, but it is not installed! Other than > installing from the tarball, is there any way to properly configure > fglrx? I believe it is now configured correctly out of the rpm package. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will correct me if I am wrong. In any case, I don't have ati-fglrx-config-display on my system, and the driver works well enough for me to run Google Earth. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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