Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: > Nouveau is just for Nvidia hardware. The rough equivalent for ATI > devices is the radeon driver. > RPM Fusion nonfree doesn't currently ship the proprietary > Catalyst/fglrx driver for Fedora 11 So, Radeon is free, Catalyst/fglrx non-free? > because it is incompatible with > Linux 2.6.29 and newer, and F11 uses a kernel based on the 2.6.29 > series. So if you want to use this driver, the only Fedora option is > really Fedora 10, until AMD updates the driver to support a newer > Linux. Ok, so that's why, when I bought my computer and I said I would use Linux, the salesman suggested I buy an Nvidia card. I've installed Compiz, but are there other uses for 3D ? If not, if one doesn't care about Compiz, I understand that Frank Cox says he had no problem whatsoever with his ATI cards. >> How do you manage ATI cards with F11 and the 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64 >> kernel? > I use the radeon driver provided by Fedora. > > Currently it has no hardware 3D acceleration features, but there's > support for 2D exa and xv acceleration, so the driver works just fine > for basic use. For older ATI hardware (R500 generation and older), > there's even 3D support. > > The non-free Catalyst driver supports distributions, not kernels, and > Fedora is not in their list of supported distributions. Fedora, on the > other hand, has nothing to do with the proprietary drivers from > neither AMD nor Nvidia, and thus won't pick an older kernel just to > support them. Sometimes Catalyst seems to work on Fedora, but quite > often Fedora has something too new for it, and it fails to work. Due > to this, I think that the free drivers are the only viable long-term > option for use in Fedora. > > Fortunately, AMD has released specifications that help create free > drivers for the new ATI hardware, and there's work ongoing to get > radeon driver provide 3D acceleration even for the newest devices. It > seems that the development repos have some 3D stuff already working, > but the work hasn't yet landed to stable releases of the graphics > stack components. Still, this looks very promising. 3D non-proprietary? That would indeed be nice! Thanks a lot for your very comprehensive answer, Joonas! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
