On Wed, 2006-01-03 at 20:05 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Scott wrote: > > > > On Mar 1, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > >> You need to use proprietary drivers with the 30" flat panels from Apple > >> or Dell to get it working as one would expect. That probably wont > >> change much until the video hardware vendors wake up and start > >> supporting OSS again. > > > > Does this confirm my suspicion that the xorg radeon driver does not > > support dual link dvi mode that is required to drive these displays? > > Just kind of curious if it's actually been looked at and I'm sure you > > would know. :) > > To the best of my knowledge, the only driver that supports this is > Nvidia's proprietary driver. I don't know if ATI's fglrx driver > supports it or not, but someone else might be able to comment. > > >> Maybe Intel or someone will come to the rescue with new hardware in > >> the future, and solving the modesetting problems in the OSS Intel > >> driver currently. > > > > One could only hope. I'm more than a bit disapointed at the current > > state of video hardware support in Linux myself. It seems that the only > > real solution for fast 3D or MPEG HW decoding is vendor proprietary > > nvida or ati drivers. When I purchased this display I knew there would > > be a real chance of being forced into a proprietary driver and I > > deliberately made the choice to go with ATI based on the current r300 > > work and the past support ATI has given OSS. > > Yes, it is quite upsetting and frustrating to many users, and also to > developers. > I guess I missed that, I gave up on ATI after trying for a long time to get my Radeon AIW 8500D to work properly. I recently poked it into box I temporarily was dual booting, and it worked fine. I suppose ATI woke smelled the coffee, but has just rolled over and gone back to sleep. And I was almost ready to give them another go, I guess I will just stick with the Nvidia, at least they are consistent. > > > Anyone want to comment on the state of fglrx with xorg 7.0.0 in FC5- > > test3? Is it worth me trying or should I go back to xorg 6.x ? > > I'm not sure how closely any of the hardware vendors track Fedora > development with their drivers, however traditionally they seem to > release drivers a month or so after a new OS release, which claims > to work with the new OS release. I'd recommend reading the > documentation in the driver download to see what they claim to > support in any given driver release, and if FC5 isn't listed, wait > until it is listed. > > Otherwise, it's probably just a lot of headaches ;) -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list