Fedora 11 x86_64, ATI HD4870, and RPM Fusion's Catalyst Drivers...

[suvayu ali]

Hi Paul,

2009/11/5 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:37:29PM +0200, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:27 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
>> > On 09-11-05 09:31:45, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
>> > > Up until this past weekend, I stayed on Fedora 10 because the closed
>> > > fglrx drivers were stable and functioning, and I didn't want to go
>> >  ...
>> > > ran into a brick wall.
>> >  ...
>> > > In the mean time, does anyone have a clue what might be going on?
>> >
>> > Have you tried booting with the "nomodeset" kernel param?
>>
>> FWIW, I've tried both "nomodeset" and "nopat" on my 4830 with no effect.
>> I downgraded to Catalyst 9.8.
>>
>> See https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=900
>
> You might be interested in trying the standard radeon drivers out of
> the box in Fedora 12.  I'm using them on a HD4850 and get full support
> for compiz there.  It's not as fast in framerates as proprietary
> drivers, I bet, but I get somewhere around 2500 fps -- and none of the
> other negative side effects that made the Catalyst drivers such a
> pain.  YMMV.
>

I think although on paper 4850 and 4870s are the same, they behave
very differently. I used the radeon drivers until a few weeks back,
about the time when quakelive received support on linux. I was never
able to turn on desktop effects successfully, either with radeon or
radeonhd. It was the same even for the F12 LiveCD for the Radeon test
day.[1] The penultimate entry is mine. But I have to admit things have
improved by leaps and bounds over the last few months, and I am
waiting for the day when I can switch to open source drivers.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-09_Radeon#Results
-- 
Suvayu

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