Is there a Catalyst Driver for Kernel3.2.10?
Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
zombiegenerator at aol.com
Wed Mar 28 09:24:39 UTC 2012
> > > I cannot search the driver in YUM.
> >
> > The Catalyst driver lives in the rpmfusion repo so if you don't have
> > that installed then you first need to add it. Information how to do
> > that can be found at: http://rpmfusion.org
>
> Except that it's broken on 3.2.9 and later kernels.
>
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2208
>
> kevin
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Kevin,
>
> Thanks for posting the bug report. I have been chasing a problem
> with a
> "ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648" Do you know if the support of
> these
> types of cards will be incorporated into the Fedora repositories
> or are
> there opensource problems that prohibit their use. Maybe we need to
> come up with an 'opensource' sticker that the manufacturers can use.
>
> Greg
>
>
> As long as the software itself falls under a license permissible for
> the Fedora Project, it should be alright. There are cases, however,
> where projects fall under a permissible license but depend on or
> contain modules which are not permissible in Fedora. An example of
> this is VirtualBox.
>
>
Catalyst driver's performance is total mess. Open source one is better IMO
--
Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
Core Developer Intern, Diaspora <http://joindiaspora.com>
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