Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Kevin Martin wrote:
> 
> 
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> Kevin Martin wrote:
>>> FWIW, I've got an x1600 running on my Acer laptop and have NEVER been 
>>> able to get compiz to work correctly (either using the fglrx or the 
>>> proprietary ATI drivers).  This is with F8.
>>
>> My laptop has a Mobility Radeon x1600.  According to the chipset 
>> mappings, this is an M56 chipset (not an Rxxx) and is only supported 
>> by radeonhd.  I used to use fglrx with this chipset on FC6.i386, but 
>> since I upgraded to F9.x86_64 the only driver that works for me is the 
>> radeon driver.  According to the man files, this is backwards and only 
>> radeonhd should work for me.
>>
>> One minor problem I have with this chipset is that while X is running, 
>> the virtual consoles are illegible.  They work, but I cannot see the 
>> text legibly when I type in one, so unless I remember which user is 
>> logged in on which console, they are not useful.  If I kill the X 
>> server, they become legible again.  Strange.  I never had this problem 
>> using the fglrx driver on FC6.
>>
>>> Kevin
>>
> I use the fglrx drivers with this "card", but not with Compiz.  I have 
> not tried the radeon(hd) drivers to see if I get different results.  I 
> had been downloading and installing the ATI proprietary drivers that the 
> ATI website said worked with this card.  Are the radeon(hd) drivers on 
> the ATI website or are they built/hosted somewhere else?

You can get xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd through yum in updates.

If you are going to continue with fglrx, then stay with F8 for a while, 
as fglrx is broken with F9.  It does not yet support Xorg 1.5.

> Kevin
> 


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