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

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