David, I recently switched to the open source ati driver on my laptop (running Arch x86_64 with ATI Mobility X1600) and have been happy so far. I don't do much 3D stuff on it admittedly and I do miss the fan speed control from the catalyst drivers. Apart from that it's a nice feeling having an untainted kernel! If you mainly use 2D it would be worth looking at the open source drivers. Mike On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:00 AM, David C. Rankin < drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Listmates, > > My 3rd install of Arch is on my x86_64 laptop (Toshiba 205D). > Unfortunately I > have an ATI Radeon 1200 in it and ATI - SUCKS. > > (Not to mention they have just royally screwed Linux over by dropping all > support for the R300-R500 series cards while the last driver ATI released > [the > 9.3 driver] is crippled as hell for many cards) > > I'm currently working to get the radeon driver up and going and when > I'm done > I'll look into compiling the last good fglrx driver (8-9 release) for Arch. > I'm > not that great of a programmer, so if there are any Arch programmers here > that > want to take a look, I could sure use the help. > > The package I will work with is the September '08 driver package you > can > obtain at the ati site under previous releases: > > ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run > > You can extract the files with: > > ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --extract > > If anyone wants to take a look, 2 sets of eyes are always better > than 1. > > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > Rankin Law Firm, PLLC > 510 Ochiltree Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > www.rankinlawfirm.com >
