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leflores80
19th June 2007, 01:02 AM
Hey all! I've looked over the ATI driver posts but it seems to me nothing definitive has been reached. A while back I installed the new driver for my ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 card and when I loaded my computer it would blank after the initial configurations iow. right when the login screen comes up. I was wondering if anyone has been able to get it to work properly. Is it compatible with XFree86 4.6 (the latest stable version) thanks!
fhubers
19th June 2007, 01:08 AM
Which version of FC are you using? The ATI driver works fine on my Mobility Radeon 9600 - I am running 2.6.20-1.2952. (X86_64) on a e-machines m6805 laptop.
leflores80
19th June 2007, 01:18 AM

FC7 on an e-machines m6809... you installed the new driver?
fhubers
19th June 2007, 02:26 AM
Driver doesn't work on F7 yet - read this http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=156434 you need to wait until the next version comes out - allegedly by the end of June. That is why I am still running FC6
leflores80
19th June 2007, 02:45 AM
Oh ok.. thanks.. I guess I didn't understand that.. can I use the s-video capability though in the mean time? Thanks!
fhubers
20th June 2007, 01:20 AM
I don't know - I stuck with FC6 because of the driver problem. You should be able to use the generic ATI driver - but the performance is horrible. Uninstall the proprietary driver and it should work.
leigh123linux
20th June 2007, 01:27 AM
Driver doesn't work on F7 yet - read this http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=156434 you need to wait until the next version comes out - allegedly by the end of June. That is why I am still running FC6


There is a work around for fglrx.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=794362&postcount=2