Working ATI driver?

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Bill,

On Friday 24 September 2010 09:09 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> suvayu ali wrote:
>> On 24 September 2010 15:18, Bill Davidsen<davidsen at tmr.com>   wrote:
>>> I have a new ATI Radeon card in a new system, PCI says:
>>>
>>>     03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]
>>>     03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
>>
>> These should "just work" with the FOSS radeon drivers. If you can't
>> make them work, your options would be,
>>
>> 1. Bugzilla
>> 2. use the catalyst drivers from RPMFusion
>>       # yum install kmod-catalyst
>>
> That's the one I was looking for, my notes had me check for 'mesa' packages. I
> will check how the kmod and xorg-x11-drv bit play, but this is the clue I
> needed. Don't need 3D, but I would like a screen image.
>

Those packages will install the proprietary drivers, for the FOSS 
drivers try, xorg-x11-drv-ati

Hopefully one of them suits your system. GL.

> Thanks.
>

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Suvayu

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