Re: ATI drivers crash on Fedora 7

On 7/5/07, Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:53 +0200, Terje Røsten wrote:
>
> > Dario Castellarin
> >  >
> > > The Ati proprietary driver doesn't support the xserver 1.3 yet,so no
> way
> > > to make it work in Fedora 7 for now.
> >
> > It's a pain. but works: downgrade xorg* packages to FC6 versions and
> setup yum to not exclude
> > the same packages from updates.
> >
> > ATI support for Linux users is a just sad, sad story, lots of speak and
> no action.
> >
> > You know what to do when buying your next laptop...
>
> Just one thing to say:
>
> OUCH :(
>
> Not having the "radeon" driver working and not having ATI propietary
> drivers either, I am stuck with the ugly "vesa" one.
>
> Sad, uh?
>
> Thanks for the enlightening anyway :)
>
> Imoq.
>
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>

It isn't that hard to get it working, just follow this and if you have any
questions ping me.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=156961&page=1&pp=15