Re: Driver to Radeon HD 4200?

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On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:02:43PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> On 02/11/09 15:54, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:44:53PM +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> rpmfusion is normally the place you want to get those.
> >> Right. If you want to go that route you need the catalyst one.
> > 
> > I'd *highly* recommend trying the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
> > package first.  Install, restart X, and then try glxgears or compiz
> > out to see results.  This works on my brand new Radeon HD 4850, for
> > example, which shocked, astounded, and delighted me. :-)
> > 
> You are right it's absolutely marvellous.

There is a chance you *might* see some graphics tearing in Firefox,
but I've tried a newer kernel build that seems to have taken care of
this nicely.  If it's not part of F12 final, you should see an update
very shortly afterward that will fix that problem.  (I only saw it
when not running compiz, IIRC.)

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