ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

[gary artim]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
>> How well is radeonhd's 3D accelleration expected to work in Fedora 11?
>
> The "radeonhd" driver is not really supported in Fedora (some volunteer is
> packaging it as an alternative, but it's not the recommended driver), you
> should use the default "radeon" driver, or "ati" which will load "radeon"
> when it detects a Radeon.
>
> Fedora 11 has no 3D support for Radeon HD models, only up to the X1xxx
> models. If you have a HD 2xxx, 3xxx or 4xxx, upgrade to Fedora 12 and
> install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental. If you have a HD 5xxx, you probably
> need to wait for Fedora 13 or 14, there is currently no 3D support for those
> in Fedora 11, 12 nor Rawhide.
>
>        Kevin Kofler
>
> --

hey, so the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental needed in addition to the
radeon driver? could
this help with garbled screens I get from the radeon driver or kde?

-- gary