Fedora Users — Re: Fedora and a Radeon Mobility 7500

Installation was as easy as documented in their instructions: Just an rpm installation that moves a lot of XFree stuff out of the way. Once I got the config done correctly, I was extremely pleased with the display performance. 1600x1200 of glorious 1400+ FPS video. Not amazing performance maybe, but a lot better then I was getting with XFree86.

So far I haven't had any problems, except for some apps that use some libMesa specific extensions that are not supported in the Summit products.

Removing it would be a simple rpm -e operation, but you cannot easily toggle back and forth other than removing the package.

~Jeff


Heiko Joerg Schick wrote:

Hello Jeff,
I have a A31 and I'm interessted in this product. Perhaps
you can post a short test report, because I'm not sure
how it works with Fedora Core 1.
I've downloaded the LX-Plantium Demo Package and saw that some
Kernel modules are included in a RPM package. Does this work
correctly with Fedora and all different Kernel version?
Can I have XFree86 and the x-server from XIG at the same
time on by harddisk, because I have the felling - that some
file, directories, etc. could be overwritten or changed.
Thanks in adavance.
Regards, Heiko
Jeff Stampes wrote:
James Drabb wrote:
I have a Radeon Mobility 7500[M7 LW] in my laptop. <snip>
The binary drivers from ATI say they do not support this card and since the Radeon is in a laptop, I am stuck with it :(
Yup. I have the same chip (IBM Thinkpad A31P). I Downloaded XIG's X server (www.xig.com) and tried it out. The visual difference was worth the money I shelled out after seeing the demo.
~Jeff