Controlling displays with HDMI output

[Brian West]

On 12/02/2012 11:27 AM, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> Another problem is with the display size of the HDMI.
>> Are you using the closed source ATI drivers, or the open source
>> radeon driver? For me, only the open source driver works
>> well. The proprietary ATI drivers were designed by utter morons
>> who believe that people might be upset if digital display
>> devices didn't emulate the "overscan" crap that CRTs were
>> subject to.
> I'm using the open source radeon drivers that are included with fc17.
> I meant to mention that in my initial post.
>
> The general consensus is that the open source drivers are better than
> the ATI drivers?
>
> I've been using the binary drivers since I bought this card for fc15.
> The open source support then was complete crap and I had no option.
> I'm surprised to hear it's better now.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to configure GNOME3 to display the
> Activities menu at the top of every display?
>
> How can I switch to Xfce without having to download and reinstall that spin?
>
> Thanks for the ideas on the TV settings. I'll try that later.
>
> Thanks again,
> Alex
i can say that ive had better luck with the open source drivers the 
closed source ones caused gnome3 to boot into fallback mode and disabled 
desktop effects in kde

-Brian