Re: ATI support

Just a habit I guess :)

On 3/20/07, Dario Castellarin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> At least on my system, I don't need to issue aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
> anymore since the update to 8.34.8.
>
> Dario
>
> Justin Conover ha scritto:
> >
> >
> > On 3/20/07, *Mike Chambers* <[email protected] <mailto:[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
> >
> >
>