On Thursday, 18 בDecember 2008, Erez D wrote: > i have recently bought a new computer. my old one had nvidia , and my new > has ati 4550 passive. > ... [rest of horror story omitted]
This is a typical usage scenario for binary "add-on" drivers (just google for e.g: ubuntu madwifi) What is more interesting is how much had actually advanced in the radeonhd (new free software ATI driver): - Docs are freely available since end of 2007: http://developer.amd.com/documentation/Pages/default.aspx - You can verify that there is *ongoing* work: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/log/ - The developers ask for testing: http://airlied.livejournal.com/60180.html Generaly David Airlie's blog (http://airlied.livejournal.com/) has a lot of info about radeonhd. The simplest test is to boot Fedora-10 Live-CD. It contains support for Kernel-Mode-Setting for some ATI chipsets. The minimal things to check (IMO) are: - If the boot is graphical and transition smoothly into the login screen (will only happen on KMS supported chipets). - If after login you can activate desktop-effects (depends on 3D acceleration). If you can test these and send /var/log/Xorg.0.log we would all be greatfull to you. TIA. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron "LINUX is tied fairly closely to the 80x86. Not the way to go." - LINUX is obsolete, Andy Tanenbaum, 29 Jan 92. ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il
