On 04/03/2011 03:57 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> On 02/04/11 23:32, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 22:17:43 +0200,
>> "Erik P. Olsen"<epod...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've found that on F12 I have mesa-dri-drivers-experimental installed
>>> whereas on
>>> F14 it is "only" mesa-dri-drivers. I've now installed the experimental
>>> version
>>> on F14 and will change graphics cards tomorrow. Maybe this will solve my
>>> problem.
>> Maybe, but I think for F14 experimental was just for Nouveau. In F15 that
>> subpackage doesn't exist.
>>
>>> Is any doc available listing which cards are supported by the two mesa
>>> drivers?
>> I am not sure. It's not just support but also level of support. Some of the
>> newer cards have kms and not much else in the latest kernel. I am not sure
>> how much support the rv8xx stuff has right now and back in 2.6.35. I think
>> that group of chips was called evergreen and you could search for that.
>> Fedora also may have backported support for those cards. It could also
>> be a quirkiness of your particular model of card or a driver bug that affects
>> your card. (For example on my old rv280, I need to disable AGP to get it
>> to work reliably. I didn't used to have to do that but some bug got
>> introduced
>> around 2.6.37 that gave me grief.)
>>
> As you said, the experimental driver didn't help. Next try will be catalyst.
>
I had no success with V3800 and F14 livecd, the proprietary driver
works nicely in RHEL 6.0. I like this card, better than stock gaming
cards (OpenGL, OpenCL).
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