Problems with direct rendering and ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M

[rschneberger]

I have tried to get direct rendering to work with my graphics card ATI 200M, and cant fix it. I've tried both with "radeon"-driver and ATIs native driver. No luck at all.
I have read some articles saying that it should be supported on my hardware, other articles says its not.
Is there someone who know?

Im running FC6, and want Compiz to work.

br
Ricky

[schotty]

I have this same hardware and albeit, it sucks ass even on windows, it does work. You need to use the ATI supplied driver. I would do it the simplest way by going over to the livna repo and using those rpms.

http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/UsingLivna


And then refer to the following page for how to use the repo to get your ATI drivers actually installed (Livna has some interesting methods for handling things that you really WANT to know)

http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/LivnaSwitcher

If you dont understand, feel free to email me or pm me (andrew @ schotty . com or andrew . schott @ gmail . com). It isnt that hard, but then again, I have been doing the linux tango for 10 years now, so I am used to much worse from back in the day (1996 was an interesting time in the land of linux ....)