Working ATI driver?

[Bill Davidsen]

suvayu ali wrote:
> On 24 September 2010 15:18, Bill Davidsen<davidsen at tmr.com>  wrote:
>> I have a new ATI Radeon card in a new system, PCI says:
>>
>>    03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]
>>    03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
>>
>> Is there a driver which will use this card? I would happily take a
>> driver from ATI or the devil himself, but having an expensive new system
>> which I have to run in text mode is a bit over the top. Currently
>> running kernel 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 getting little use of the system.
>>
>> I tried two other boards, different boards, similar results.
>>
>
> These should "just work" with the FOSS radeon drivers. If you can't
> make them work, your options would be,
>
> 1. Bugzilla
> 2. use the catalyst drivers from RPMFusion
>      # yum install kmod-catalyst
>
That's the one I was looking for, my notes had me check for 'mesa' packages. I 
will check how the kmod and xorg-x11-drv bit play, but this is the clue I 
needed. Don't need 3D, but I would like a screen image.

Thanks.

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