Re: Fedora 12 on ati radeon laptop

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On 01/19/2010 05:06 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
> 2010/1/19 Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On 01/18/2010 06:04 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote:
>>> how can I get dual monitors working on it? I dont care about 3D. I enabled the
>>> rpmfusion repos. I tried to install the kmod-fglrx package via yum but I get a
>>> message that no package kmod-fglrx is available.
>>
>>        I have F11 installed on my ASUS laptop and used to use the fglrx
>> drivers for it (Mobility Radeon X1600) on FC6 and F9.  As of F11, fglrx
>> is no longer available.  ATI/AMD have renamed it catalyst, and it no
>> longer supports the older cards that used to need fglrx.  What I can
> 
> Don't you mean fglrx/catalyst is not available for Fedora 12? The OP
> can also try
> mesa-dri-drivers-experimental if he chooses to stay with open source drivers.

Catalyst is supposed to be available from RPMFusion repo.  Since I don't
need it for my F12 system, I have no idea if it is available for F12 or
not.  I'm pretty sure it is available for F11, but I don't have
rpmfusion configured on my F12 machine.

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