Thanks Tom; On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 15:47 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Is there more drivers to add? Is the fglrx being updated? Is Xorg > > creating a non-proprietary driver to replace fglrx that will have all > > the necessary components? Should I fuss and fume to fix something or > > just wait until it is a complete package? Will a complete package > > include AIGLX capability? > > > > etc? etc? > > > > If anybody knows or at least has an opinion, would they please give me a > > short response so I don't have extend what has become for me a major > > project, ie installing a ATI Radeon 9600 video card and all its drivers. > > I don't know about a short response to any video questions :-). If you got the > drivers via livna rpms (or built fedora rpms from the ati source), the odds > are good that the install didn't do everything it should have to really > get them installed correctly. > I got the fglrx from livna, started with the Xorg radeon driver but replaced it because some things didn't seem right (on suggestion from mailing lists). Still doesn't seem right. Maybe I should go back to radeon? > See http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269 for all the things > I had to do manually that the provided script somehow failed to do > automatically. Or for the whole story of my fight with ATI drivers > (which I finally won) see: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html > > Don't know if your card is supported by the open source radeon driver, but > if it is, that might be the way to go, I'm using the open source drivers > now after experimenting with both, and they work fine for me (after my > struggle :-). In either case, the suggestions on how and what to install are NOT clear and concise. All the instructions for intsalling seem to leave a lot to personal interpretation, i.e. screwups. That was why I was double checking. -- Regards Bill
