Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem - Binary drivers.

[Phil Meyer]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:50:56 -0500,
>   Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
> I think trying to make Fedora for everyone is a mistake. It's current missions
> of using all free software (now including build tools, making it almost a
> source based distro) and keeping up with very recent versions of software
> included fits what I want very well. It isn't a no headache system though.
> For people admining their own system that want something that just works,
> Ubuntu seems to be the system of choice these days.
>
>   

I just might add, that the case with AMD/ATI drivers is even worse.
 
 
There is NO distro that supports R500 and R600 cards, period!  Ububtu or 
whatever, is no help there.

The official AMD/ATI drivers do not recognize the new numbering scheme 
for Xorg (1.3 vs 7.X) and simply will not work.  They are not expected 
to get corrected until the June release, and even then, there is no 
reason to expect them to support Composite natively.  We can hope, but ...

Form Xorg.0.log
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(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
(II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
        compiled for 7.1.0, module version = 8.36.5
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
[atiddxSetup] X version mismatch - detected X.org 1.3.0.0, required 
X.org 7.1.0.0
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
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At least Nvidia owners have an option.  The nv drivers just work.