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Fedora 12 ATI Catalyst Drivers

December 2, 2009
ATI Catalyst and Mesa DRI Drivers

I guess ATI graphics card owners are a bit unlucky! When Fedora 11 was released, we didn’t get the proprietary drivers from AMD for months and the older version didn’t work with default kernel at that time. When Fedora 12 was released, AMD released newer version of Drivers after a few hours. But this time, [...]

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News : ATI Catalyst Graphics Drivers 9.11 Released

November 18, 2009
AMD ATI Catalyst Display Drivers Released

Looks like AMD was waiting for Fedora 12 : Constantine release. AMD has released the next version 9.11 of ATI Catalyst Display Drivers. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 9.9 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. I have downloaded and tested them already on my machine with ATI Radeon HD 3200 (onboard) card with [...]

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News : ATI Drivers 9.10 Working with 2.6.30+ Kernels

November 6, 2009
ATI Radeon Catalyst Display Drivers 9.10

AMD released the next version 9.10 of its ATI Catalyst display drivers for Linux nearly a fortnight ago. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 9.9 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. The good thing about this version is that a lot of people are reporting that they can get it working on 2.6.30+ kernels. [...]

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News: ATI Catalyst Display Drivers 9.9 Released

September 12, 2009
ATI Radeon Linux Drivers

AMD has released the next version 9.9 of its ATI Catalyst display drivers for Linux. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 9.9 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. I have already tried them with kernel 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586 and they seem to work fine without SWCursor hack. But I still see corruptions around cursor while moving [...]

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How To: Install ATI Catalyst (fglrx) Drivers

August 22, 2009
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Last Updated : January 30, 2010.
Note: This How To is valid up to Catalyst Driver version 10.1.
Note: With minor changes this How To may work for other Linux distributions like Mandriva, Suse, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Cent OS etc.
Following the suggestions in comments on my last post about ATI Catalyst (fglrx), I tried to reinstall ATI [...]

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Info: ATI Drivers 9.8 Doesnt Work with Fedora 11 (2.6.29+)

August 18, 2009
ATI Catalyst Linux (fglrx)

After a night out I was about to go to bed when I saw the news that ATI has released a new version of ATI Catalyst™ 9.8 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver, its proprietary display drivers for Linux. I immediately downloaded the drivers to test with my Fedora 11 as I am getting more [...]

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Info: ATI Drivers 9.7 does not work in Fedora 11 (2.6.29+)

July 24, 2009
ATI Catalyst Linux (fglrx)

Yesterday, AMD released ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 Proprietary Linux x86/x86_64 Display Drivers. I happened to checkout the website today. Initially I was very excited about it hoping that these drivers will work with 2.6.29+ and I’ll be able to use my ATI Radeon HD 3200 which is lying dead since a fortnight or so. I downloaded [...]

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How To: Install Fedora without CD or DVD

August 26, 2008

Note: If you are new to Fedora/Linux, I highly recommend the book “Fedora Linux Toolbox”
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Use Case

When you don’t have CD / DVD drive on your system.
You have Fedora DVD but your system has only a CD Drive.
You don’t want to waste time and resources in burning iso on optical media.

Pre-requisites

You have a [...]

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How To: Install and Configure NVIDIA Drivers and Beryl

April 27, 2007

Well, finally I realized the power of my onboard graphics card … too lazy to realize even this (it took me a year to realize this obvious fact). I downloaded the latest nVidia drivers from here and also upgrade to the kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6. You can get it from any site which provides rpms or you can [...]

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How To: Configure Wireless with Ralink (rt2500) Level One WNC-0301 in Fedora Core 6

September 26, 2006

Well … Yesterday I switched from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. The main problem was the wireless lan. As I was using ndiswrapper for wlan in FC4, I tried compiling it for FC6. But FC6 doesn’t have build packages so it didn’t work out. Then I installed the kernel-devel packages from here. Now [...]

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