On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:11:01 -0400 Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have googled & read all I could find, with no apparent solution in > sight. I have a Dell desktop with a Radeon HD 5670 video card : > lspci|grep VGA > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > [AMD/ATI] Redwood XT [Radeon HD 5670/5690/5730] > > I installed the amd catalyst via the file: > amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run. Catalyst driver mostly does not support Fedora, and more often than not it just doesn't work. Uninstall it, and use the default open-source radeon driver (see below). > my xorg.conf file shows this: > ection "Device" > Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" > Driver "fglrx" You want the Driver option to be "radeon". Or better yet, rename/remove your xorg.conf file and let X configure itself automatically. <rant> ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards, they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the open-source radeon driver (which works well). For their high-end cards, they refuse to provide specs (so no open-source driver), while their closed-source catalyst (fglrx) driver is a miserable POS that is almost never up-to-date with the latest kernel and X. In contrast, nVidia does not give away the specs for their cards, but their closed-source driver simply Just Works(tm). Also, recently nVidia folks decided to provide some (limited) specs to the open-source nouveau devs, so there seems to be some light at the end of that tunnel... ;-) </rant> IOW, forget catalyst and use the radeon driver. And if radeon driver doesn't work for your card, you are out of luck. HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
