On 2007-05-10, 12:28 GMT, Franck Y wrote:
> For example, i want to install the ATI driver and it tells me
> to give the xorg.conf, do i have to create and empty one ?
I have two answers for you -- the first you won't like, but
I would feel like cheating if I didn't tell it to you.
1) Don't. I mean don't install ATI binary only driver. Let me
explain in couple of more words.
Aside from philosophical position against closed binary
drivers, I have couple of practical issues with them. I am
a bugmaster for the desktop team at Red Hat (something like
janitor in bugzilla, not developer) and so I saw many many
bugs for Xorg. Two conclusions:
a) When you will come to me crying that your X doesn't work
well with ATI binary drivers (i.e., you file a bug report
against xorg* component), I will have no mercy with you and
close your bug as CANTFIX until you will be able to
reproduce the issue with opensource (xorg) drivers.
b) My main work is on xorg bugs, but I sometimes work on other
components as well, mostly gecko-related lately. Because of
experience from xorg bugs, I am watching closely on things
which are usually overlooked, like for example in this
case, what drivers are used. I found couple of firefox
bugs, where changing from ATI binary driver to opensource
one (albeit with a loss of functionality) made bug to
disappear. I am quite certain, that many other bugs in
other components could be explained by bugs in ATI
drivers.
So, my conclusion is that if you need your computer for
something serious (not only games playing), I would go, sell
your ATI card on eBay, and buy some nice Intel one -- you get
open source drivers, maintained by both stellar team at Intel
and all xorg programmers, and you will get support for your
other applications without my suspicion, that actually ATI
drivers are culprit.
2) If you don't mind unstability, and abuse from me on bugzilla
(no, I am nice even to users of binary drivers ;-)), then you
can get your /etc/X11/xorg.conf by running
system-config-display, which is legacy tool still available in
Fedora, which generates configuration files.
Best,
Matej
