> A good news story > > ATI-supplied Linux driver installed fine on my > Fedora > 4 system - no fiddling with deleting various GL > modules > > My laptop has Radion Mobility M9 - but I think the > ATI > drivers are pretty generic to many Radeon cards. > > The result of using ATI driver, is better > presentation > of wide-screen images through Ogle - I'm not > interested in 3d-support. > > Also a problem I had with video that is now fixed, > was that upon shutdown, the X display did not > revert > to command-line, the screen just got lighter and > lighter - making me worried the screen would "burn > out". So I always had to power down while shutting > down. With the ATI suplied drivers, the screen > reverts to command line cleanly on shutdown. > > Can these drivers be "absorbed" into Fedora > distribution? Probably goes against open-source. > > Clive >
