Hello all, On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:06:45 +0000 William John Murray <w.j.murray@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm purchasing a new notebook. It looks like ATI is about the only > > display > > choice these days. I see there are driver packages a livna, including > > x86_64. > > > > Anyone with recent experience with ATI on Linux? Works reasonably > > well? > > Hotkey switching for external display and tv-out supported OK? > > Hi Neal, > I just got a Dell D610 with ATI M300 and the livna rpms. > Tv-out works fine, if you are connected to the TV at boot. You can user > mode switch the video stream between screen and TV with aticonfig. > I didn't try hotkeys. > > The Fedora 3D games don't work: ppracer, bzflag... > Doom 3 and Quake 4 are fine though. > > For a DVD, the sata drive means I have had to use Dave's test > 2.6.15pre kernels. No problem here, running up-to-date fglrx modules on a D810 featuring Ati M600, TVout (need X restart when you change the clone mode w/ aticonfig) and DRI work fine. Regards, -- wwp
