radeon driver / fc12 / ati hd 4770

[psmith]

On 10/02/10 19:21, gary artim wrote:
> fyi, i just went over to the 2 machine and talked with the users of
> them. they showed me that within
> konquerer and kconsole the fonts get funky graphics, like the
> character set is set incorrectly. But not consistent
> at all. Moves around to different parts of the screen. Sometime the
> boarder area is hosed. Sometime the
> desktop icons are unreadable. The zebra lines and checked board images
> on the background seem to
> come and go.
>
> i'll try changing to radeonhd -- i remember giving it a quick shot in
> the beginning and having trouble getting a gdm
> login screen. Will try again. -- g.
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:31 AM, gary artim<gartim at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> will do.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Bruno Wolff III<bruno at wolff.to>  wrote:
>>      
>>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:07:58 -0800,
>>> �gary artim<gartim at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Thanks Tom --
>>>>
>>>> I'll give it a shot. Any other options/opinions are welcomed -- l'll
>>>> gladly put a wiki up explaining how and what works if i can make that
>>>> happen -- don't you just love video cards!?
>>>>          
>>> Please make sure there are bugzilla entries for the problems you encountered
>>> using the ati driver. Even if you need to use radeonhd to get things to work,
>>> the bugs are more likely to get fixed if the developers are told about them.
>>>
>>>        
>>
>>      

have you tried mesa-dri-drivers-experimental? they are working very well here (F12 X86_64 HD3400)