Re: Fedora and a Radeon Mobility 7500

[Jeff Stampes <Jeff Stampes xilinx com>]

Installation was as easy as documented in their instructions:  Just an 
rpm installation that moves a lot of XFree stuff out of the way.  Once I 
got the config done correctly, I was extremely pleased with the display 
performance.  1600x1200 of glorious 1400+ FPS video.  Not amazing 
performance maybe, but a lot better then I was getting with XFree86.

So far I haven't had any problems, except for some apps that use some 
libMesa specific extensions that are not supported in the Summit products.

Removing it would be a simple rpm -e operation, but you cannot easily 
toggle back and forth other than removing the package.

~Jeff


Heiko Joerg Schick wrote:

> Hello Jeff,
>
> I have a A31 and I'm interessted in this product. Perhaps
> you can post a short test report, because I'm not sure
> how it works with Fedora Core 1.
>
> I've downloaded the LX-Plantium Demo Package and saw that some
> Kernel modules are included in a RPM package. Does this work
> correctly with Fedora and all different Kernel version?
>
> Can I have XFree86 and the x-server from XIG at the same
> time on by harddisk, because I have the felling - that some
> file, directories, etc. could be overwritten or changed.
>
> Thanks in adavance.
>
> Regards, Heiko
>
> Jeff Stampes wrote:
>
> > James Drabb wrote:
> >
> > > I have a Radeon Mobility 7500[M7 LW] in my laptop. <snip>
> > >
> > > The binary drivers from ATI say they do not support this card
> > > and since the Radeon is in a laptop, I am stuck with it :(
> > >  
> > Yup.  I have the same chip (IBM Thinkpad A31P).  I Downloaded XIG's X 
> > server (www.xig.com) and tried it out.  The visual difference was 
> > worth the money I shelled out after seeing the demo.
> >
> > ~Jeff