On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No i had not but i am going to. The livna driver is just the ATI driver repackaged isn't it? I didn't think there was a substantial difference between the two.
Thanks,
Max
Have you tried the latest drivers directly from ATI?max bianco wrote:
> I had previously installed and removed the ati driver (from livna)
> because it was causing some distortion on my desktop. I did not have
> time to deal with the problem then so its been on the back burner for
> awhile now. Just yesterday i reinstalled but nothing appears to have
> changed. The difference is now I would like/ want to use 3d
> acceleration. The distortion appears on the bottom of the desktop. The
> top of my screen is reappearing over the bottom 2 or 3 inches of the
> screen. The computer remains usable but some programs are affected more
> than others by this phenomenon. Obviously I would like the distortion to
> go away. I haven't seen this issue using the livna drivers with other
> Fedora boxes but those have different video cards than this one.
> My video card is an ATI Radeon X1800 256MB. Is there some modification
> that can be made to xorg.conf that will fix this? Has anyone seen this
> problem? can anyone point me to a solution? I am in the process of
> researching a solution using google, bugzilla, and this list. Any and
> all responses welcome.
>
>
> Max
>
No i had not but i am going to. The livna driver is just the ATI driver repackaged isn't it? I didn't think there was a substantial difference between the two.
Thanks,
Max
