On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 20:15 +0200, Julian Aloofi wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 23.07.2009, 13:56 -0400 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > > apologies for the unduly harsh tone but, seriously, will there ever > > be radeon drivers available for fedora that aren't complete junk? > > this has been going on for some time now, and nothing's changed. > > > > currently, on my 1280x800 display gateway laptop, i need to run the > > vesa driver and get only 1024x768 because, if i try to run the radeon > > driver, i'll get my full resolution, and my session will last maybe > > 10-15 minutes before finally locking up, at which point the only > > response i can get is moving the mouse around the screen verrrrrry > > slowly but nothing else, requiring a power cycle. (the vesa driver > > will, of course, work perfectly for days on end.) > > > > it's been like this since early in the f11 test cycle, and it > > depresses me to think i'll still be fighting with this when the first > > cut of f12 comes out. > > > > what's the story on video drivers these days? and why are they such > > unmitigated trash? > > > > </rant> > > > > rday > We had a radeon test day in the Fedora 11 test cycle: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Radeon_2009-04-01 > If you had this error in the test cycle, that would've been the right > day to report it. My card works fine, by the way. If you want to get it > fixed, some information, at least your card model would be nice. > Regards, > Julian Ok, here is one that makes F11 a serious reversion and a total writeoff as a desktop at this point: ATI HD3650 512MB AGP - no 3d support at all, F10 had pretty good 3D - shuts down every so often - slow 2D driver, far better prior to F11 using the RPM Fusion non-free driver I'm not using F11 anymore, as it is far worse that F10. In F10 I can play FPS games beautifully and power management actually works, unlike F11. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
