Mobility Radeon HD3650 on F12

convict · #1 30th January 2010, 12:22 AM

Well, I'm planning on installing F12 on my new Studio 17 with Mobility Radeon 3650... I'd just like to hear general opinions/experiences of how easy/hard the driver is to set up and how well does it work - what kinda problems did you encounter, how'd you fix them, and so on.

EDIT: Off topic, but why does it say I'm posting from Safari? I'm using Chrome...

nty2013 · #2 30th January 2010, 01:24 AM

Hi! I have Thinkpad R400 2784A54 with radeon 3470. I installed fedora 12 and it works perfect. All driver was installed including the modem and bluetooth.I have two GPUs. By default the 3470 works.but when I installed the official AMD driver the 3470 could not work. I couldn't solve that until now. So, I want to recommend you if your fedora works well so don't install any drivers. Hope I can help you!

convict · #3 30th January 2010, 02:26 AM

Thanks for that. Did you happen to get any 3D acceleration with the default drivers? I'm intending to do some (light) gaming, and while I'll most likely dual-boot with Vista I'd rather have all the games that have Linux-native versions on my Fedora installation.

Also, anyone know if Compiz would work with the free drivers?

clearer · #4 30th January 2010, 02:38 AM

radeonHD doesn't (yet) support 3d acceleration for anything but x1xxx chips (according to the official wiki on x.org) -- i.e. you're out of luck for now. You may be able to get the closed drivers working though (I wouldn't know since I don't have any amd/ati chips in the house).

You should look into rpmfusion for setting up yum to allow the package management system to do things for you -- not sure if they do have the closed amd/ati drivers but they do have the nvidia drivers which works "ok" but are hard to get rid of -- which may soon be an issue as the free drivers are nearing readiness. At least well enough for me.

convict · #5 30th January 2010, 04:08 AM

Bugger, but thanks. Can you point me towards a good guide for setting up RPM fusion? Shouldn't be too hard, but last time I tried in on F11 it didn't too well for me - I think the issue was probably not related to the repos, but regardless, I never got any mp3/other proprietary media formats to play... I didn't care too much for them so I couldn't be arsed looking for a fix to an extremely minor annoyance, might have been something really simple.

GoinEasy9 · #6 30th January 2010, 04:37 AM

For Multimedia you could check out:
http://fedorasolved.org/multimedia
For proprietary media check out:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
Or, check out autoten here:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=171660

I'm also keeping an eye out on the experimental mesa driver for ATI that I've read about in some of the threads here, There are many good deals on desktops and laptops out there but they contain ATI graphics and at some point these Open Source drivers should become workable with them so we don't have to install Nvidia or ATI blobs any more.
I mention that so you can keep your eye out too. I got my Studio 17 with Intel drivers because of the ATI problem.

David Batson · #7 30th January 2010, 05:05 AM

Just saw this posted on Mandriva's forum this morning. Could prove interesting.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkFoss regarding the ATI 10.1 propriatary Catalyst driver

The good ATI finally supports kernel 2.6.32.x
writing this using MIB's 2.6.32.6 kernel with direct rendering.

Some users at Phoronix report that thier HD 5xxx series cards are working with this driver..

The bad :

I had to install them with the ATI installer

ATI broke the packaging script, rpm's get created but will not install
with the following error :

Code:

- x11-driver-video-fglrx-8.690-1amd.mdv2010.0.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied libatiuki.so.1()(64bit))

No Xorg 7.5 support yet useless for cooker.

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=124194