Comments on: Fedora 12 – No love from ATI/AMD

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:12:38 +0000

After a successful ATI Catalyst installation on Fedora12 2D performance may be worse. Try to run

aticonfig –set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE

and/or to add following line to the device-part in xorg.conf:

Option “XAANoOffscreenPixmaps”

to solve this problem.

By: kroeker

kroeker — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:54:28 +0000

Installing ATI Catalyst driver on Fedora 12:

If succeeded, the 2D performance may be slow. To solve this problem try to run

aticonfig –set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE

and to add following line to the Device-part in xorg.conf:

Option “XAANoOffscreenPixmaps”

Jack

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:38:58 +0000

Now it is possible to install ati driver on Fedora 12!

See
http://madathilunni.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/installing-ati-catalyst-driver-10-6-fglrx-in-fedora-12/

for details!

Cheers,

Jakob

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Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:25:38 +0000

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By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:50:50 +0000

@Jerky: I was refering to Fedora 12 and Xorg 1.7 both of which are stable. X 1.7 was the latest stable X at the time. Also it was more a way of me voicing my views on ATI”s favorite distro approach.

By: Jerky

Jerky — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:24:28 +0000

ATI does not yet support the newest xorg for one simple reason, its not on a stable release (although maybe it does now as there was just a new ATI release, haven”t checked as I am not a version junkie) For all those version junkies out there, if you want something that is guaranteed to work, then use a release that the hardware and software vendors certify it to work against, yes I know, this means you are limited in your OS choice, and may not have the latest greatest toys. How do you expect a company to maintain support for the bleeding edge is not always possible,as there is significant changes between versions. Maybe RHEL6 will be based on Fedora 13 and the latest xorg, but for all we know they might release another xorg and where does that then leave ATI if it needs to yet again write an update / patch for Fedora 14 / RHEL6.

Me personally, I use what I know will work, and check before you buy a system that hardware / os / drivers will play nicely.

Failing that, write your own alpha driver and submit it to the community if you feel so strongly about vendors not supporting the latest distro.

By: me

me — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:47:25 +0000

Don”t bother with ATI anymore – ATI is history.

By: TuxAttack80

TuxAttack80 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:25:12 +0000

The mesa experimental drivers work great for me!!! ATI 3200 HD, Fedora 12-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686, no issues what so ever! Great frame rates in glxgear, able to run compiz smoothly and the sneak peak of gnome-shell 3 that can be added to desktop effects is a very nice touch. Recently switched to Fedora 12 and the 2.6.32.9 kernel fits my ath9k perfectly and the experimental drivers are icing on the cake!!

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:09:57 +0000

True but these kinds of things also make users comfortable doing all that package swapping annoyed that a binary does not exist

By: jack

jack — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:53:34 +0000

Its strange that ATI have not even released an alpha version. If they only see Fedora as a playground for Red-hat (which we have to admit – it sorta is) they should be making sure they put a binary through a few release cycles before RH6 gets pushed out. (which should be soon – if not already??!?!?).

It urks me that I have had to move over to Ubuntu 9.10 which is a real stinker of a distro. They also seem to be heading for the bleeding edge stuff – not unstable per se , but flaky setup. Software configurations and my soundcard is giving me hell.

I use a studio M-Audio card and the “pulseaudio” system would not detect it – or at least work with it correctly. After hours of config I removed pulse and installed alsa driver and it worked like a charm… I updated my system last night only to find my soundcard is now not even detected anymore.

Until these sorts of issues get addressed none of the distros will be serious contenders for desktop replacement to the masses. Cant imagine having to try and help someone install a soundcard over the phone on any of these linux distro”s. With windows the instructions woudl be along the lines of download the driver – install it … tada!! *windows sound*

With linux it”s – remove packages A1.02 B1.02.23 C0.02.1 D E … install packages F1.04.2 G2.06.1 H I J K … now update packages Z X Y (all with their own version numbers) …