ATI FirePro V3800 question.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 15:18:05 +0200,
  "Erik P. Olsen" <epodata at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've bought this graphics card and it hangs my Fedora 14 system right at the 
> point where it switches to graphics mode. I wonder what I am missing because my 
> alternative system Fedora 12 on the same hardware works beautifully.
> 
> I've found that ATI has issued a driver, Catalyst, for the card. Am I supposed 
> to download and install this driver?

That's an rv830 based card which is fairly new to getting support in the open
driver. Possibly in F12 the system was falling back to the vesa driver and
in F14 the radeon driver is trying to use it but is broken. It might be worth
trying an F15 live image
(http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2967483&name=Fedora-15-Nightly-20110401.17-i686-Live-desktop.iso)
to see if things are likely to work when F15 is released. If not, your best
short term option might be to try to use the catalyst driver in the
RPMFusion repos. If it does work in F15, we are about two weeks away from
the Beta F15 release and changes in the branched release should start
being a lot more conservative.