How well does Fedora handle ATI cards?

[john wendel]

On 08/03/2009 10:09 PM, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> I already said that I had no problem with my NVIDIA card and Fedora. Once
> you know that you must get your instructions at rpmfusion, everything is
> fine. The Nouveau driver also worked very well, but only in 2D, of course.
> Suse, and Mint, which I tried yesterday, only got me to a 800 x 600
> screen.
>
> I suppose the Nouveau driver recognizes ATI cards but what if you want 3D?
>
> I found this for x86_64:
>
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/testing/10/x86_64/repoview/kmod-fglrx-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.x86_64.html
>
> but it's for an old kernel and an old version of Fedora.
>
> How do you manage ATI cards with F11 and the 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64 kernel?
>

The Nouveau driver is only for Nvidia cards. There are open and closed 
source ATI drivers, but I'm ignorant about the details.

Regards,

John