ATI drivers.

[Jose Celestino]

Words by Fernando Apesteguía [Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:33:59AM +0100]:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to install the ATI drivers for FC 6, I tried from livna,
> but I have a problem while loading so I have not 3D accel. Can you
> point me to any good, straight forward document to install the ATI
> drivers?
> 
> With that, could I run AIGLX?
> 

No. The ATI proprietary driver (fglrx) does not yet support
texture-from-bitmap so it will not work with AIGLX. But you can use the
radeon open source driver, performace is amazing although it fails
suspend on me.

> In addition, with the standard ati radeon drivers included with
> Fedora, I have a problem when my system goes to suspension. When it
> wakes up, I have some noise around the windows, like strange lines
> around there.
> 
> Anybody with the same problem?
> 

Yes :)

-- 
Jose Celestino
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