does anyone tested ATI proprietary driver on FC13 ?

[Jatin K]

On Thursday 27 May 2010 08:40 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hello Jatin,
>
> On Thursday 27 May 2010 06:19 AM, Jatin K wrote:
>    
>> Dear all,
>>
>> does anyone successfully installed ATI Proprietary driver
>> (ati-driver-installer-10-5-x86.x86_64.run package ) on FC13 ? I've
>> installed fc13 on my dell laptop with ATI Radeon HD 5450 Series 1GB
>> memory display card . I'm unable to enable desktop effects
>>
>> output of_* lspci | VGA*_
>>
>> VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility
>> Radeon HD 5000 Series]
>>
>>
>> *_glxinfo | grep direct _*
>>
>> direct rendering: yes
>>
>> any idea ? how do I install ATI Proorietary driver on FC13 as the native
>> driver is not working ( i think )
>>
>>      
> This is from Paul's email announcing the release of Fedora 13:
>
>    
>> * 3D support for ATI cards (R600 and R700) via Radeon driver. In
>>    Fedora 13, 3D support for many ATI cards has moved out of
>>    experimental status and is enabled by default. 2D support for the
>>    latest generation (R800) is integrated as well in this
>>    release. Thanks to Red Hat's Dave Airlie and many others for
>>    involvement upstream and in Fedora.
>>
>>      
> It has been explained many times to you (myself included)
Suvayu
I'm sorry for asking it again and again ( it is 'cause I've got a new 
laptop for my bro. it also having ATI Radeon HD 5000 series card in it , 
and he wants the eye-catching  desktop effects )

> about the
> limitation with ATI proprietary drivers. It is _not_ compatible with the
> Xorg version Fedora ships with. But they always work closely with Ubuntu
> releases, and soon after a general more up-to-date driver version is
> released.
>
> Your options are to,
> 1. wait for the open drivers to catch up
> 2. wait for the proprietary drivers to catch up
> 3. use Fedora without compositing (its not as bad as it sounds)
>    
Ok I'll wait and stick to Fedora


> Which is going to be sooner is anybody's guess. And as a suggestion, a
> more appropriate place to ask your questions would be the RPMfusion
> users list.
>
>    

thanks for the idea ...... :-)


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