Re: ATI support

On 3/20/07, Mike Chambers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 11:43 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > Mike Chambers wrote :
> >
> > > Does ATI/Your Rpms support current Fedora devel (as in FC7t?)?  Or do
> I
> > > have to run FC6+updates+your rpms to get ATI drivers to work with a
> > > Radeon X1300?
> >
> > I honestly have no idea. I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't
> > run on F7 if they do on FC6, though.
> > One thing I can tell you is that the only laptop I've tested with an
> > X1300 couldn't get the full native resolution with the free radeon
> > driver (FC6), so I had to use the proprietary one, but XV doesn't work
> > and X often crashes right after logging into GNOME...
>
> Well, this is actually a desktop.  I got it running via vesa on an FC6
> +updates system, and have your ati-x11-drv package installed.  I believe
> fglrx module is loading (yes it's in my config), but no dri and maybe
> few others.  I am going to post my config file to see if anyone see's
> something that needs to be added to my config to get it fully
> functional? (glx gears shows no dri and runs slow)
>
> The .old is what FC6 configures w/fglrx.  The xorg.conf one is my
> current that I used to have for earlier FC versions, when I used to use
> a Radeon 9000 when it was supported.  But still no dri on neither config
> file.
>
> --
> Mike Chambers
> Madisonville, KY
>
> "Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not getting any!"



After you install the driver, run the following:

 yum install ati-x11-drv
aticonfig --initial
aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
edit xorg.conf and drop in the bottom

Section "Extensions"
        Option  "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option  "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection