ATI Video drivers 8.14.13 work well Fedora FC4

[Clive at Rational]

> A good news story
> 
> ATI-supplied Linux driver installed fine on my
> Fedora
> 4 system - no fiddling with deleting various GL
> modules
> 
> My laptop has Radion Mobility M9 - but I think the
> ATI
> drivers are pretty generic to many Radeon cards.
> 
> The result of using ATI driver, is better
> presentation
> of wide-screen images through Ogle - I'm not
> interested in 3d-support.
> 
>  Also a problem I had with video that is now fixed,
> was that upon   shutdown, the X display did not
> revert
> to command-line, the screen just got lighter and
> lighter - making me worried the screen would "burn
> out". So I always had to power down while shutting
> down.  With the ATI suplied drivers, the screen
> reverts to command line cleanly on shutdown.
> 
> Can these drivers be "absorbed" into Fedora
> distribution? Probably goes against open-source.
> 
> Clive
>