ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Feb 11 14:33:35 UTC 2010


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



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