Re: Graphics Test Week this week

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On 13 April 2010 21:43, Jatin K <ssh.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> Hi Jatin,
>>
>> On Tuesday 13 April 2010 01:01 AM, Jatin K wrote:
>>
>>> Gianluca Sforna wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Fedora project announces that this week is Graphics Test Week.
>>>>
>>>> This is the highlight of the Fedora 13 Test Day cycle, with Test Days
>>>> for NVIDIA, ATI/AMD and Intel graphics all falling this week. Tuesday
>>>> April
>>>> 13th is NVIDIA Test Day [1], Wednesday April 14th is ATI/AMD Test Day
>>>> [2], and Thursday April 15th is Intel graphics Test Day [3].
>>>>
>>>>
>>> what about ATI Mobility Radeon 5450 ( 5xxx ) series ????
>>>
>>> only these[1] cards are shown on the link
>>>
>>> [1] Radeon HD 2xxx, HD 3xxx, or HD 4xxx series
>>>
>>> 5xxx series will not be supported in FC 13 !!!!!!
>>>
>>
>> I believe you mean HD 5450 from the HD 5xxx family (R800s)?
>>
>> In case you haven't been following the news,
>>
>> "A little over a week ago, the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS repository picked up the
>> Catalyst 10.4 driver. The currently available Catalyst 10.3 driver does
>> not support the X.Org 1.7.5 Server used by Ubuntu Lucid, so once again
>> (for the fourth release in a row), AMD had to supply Canonical with an
>> early build of the Catalyst 10.4 driver that will be officially released
>> in April. The Catalyst 10.4 driver supports the newer X.Org Server and
>> is compatible with the Linux 2.6.32 kernel used by the 10.04 LTS
>> release. The availability of this driver paved the way for us to finally
>> perform a recent comparison of the newest Mesa code to the Catalyst driver."
>>
>> <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_fglrx_open&num=1>
>>
>>
> Thnx for the link , I've tested my hardware with ubuntu 9.10 , graphics
> works just fine with it ( with proprietary driver )
>
> but in fedora 12 64bit it doesn't ( fglrx-ati driver is not available in
> fedora repository )
>

I think you are missing my point, I pointed you to this because it
explains why _only_ Ubuntu has the proprietary drivers at this moment
and gives you an approximate time line on when other distros should
have a working proprietary driver.  To expand on my point, here is
another link for you to consider.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1350867&postcount=3928

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Suvayu

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