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News: ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.2 Released. No Fedora 12 Support.

February 17, 2010
AMD ATI Catalyst Drivers Suck

After almost a month, ATI has come up with a new version 10.2 of its Catalyst (fglrx) drivers. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. As AMD is famous for doing nothing but just incrementing versions of there software, even this version doesn’t support xorg-1.7.4. But if [...]

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News : ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.1 Released. Test them now!

January 28, 2010
ATI Catalyst Drivers Linux fglrx

After a long, really long wait, AMD has released the next version 10.1 of its ATI Catalyst display drivers (fglrx) for Linux. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 10.1 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. As previous version turned out to be a big turn off for Fedora community and AMD took a [...]

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News: Will ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.12 work with Fedora 12?

December 18, 2009
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.12 (fglrx)

AMD has released the next version 9.12 of its ATI Catalyst display drivers for Linux. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. As of now, I haven’t tried the drivers on Fedora 12 because supposedly my SMPS is broken But since there were a whole lot [...]

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How To: Configure Dual Display with ATI Radeon (fglrx)

September 15, 2009
Dual Display Configuration ATI Radeon

As promised in my last post (News: ATI Catalyst Display Drivers 9.9 Released), I am back with a post on configuring dual display with ATI Radeon HD Graphics Card and proprietary catalyst (fglrx) drivers from ATI.
Hardware Used
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 3200 (256MB, onboard)
Monitor 0: ViewSonic VG1930WM 1440×900 (19″ LCD, Connected via DVI port)
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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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Review: Fedora 8 – Warewolf

November 10, 2007

I installed Fedora 8 32 bit from a leaky mirror on Nov 7th and I just had a very bad experience with it. Nothing seemed to be working. But I can’t accept that. As I am a hardcore fan of Fedora, I just can’t sit back and say “ah, Fedora 8 sucks, i am [...]

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Review: Fedora 7 – Moonshine

June 4, 2007

As expected, I upgraded to Fedora 7 – Moonshine yesterday. The coolest feature I noticed is that it automatically detected my Ralink WNC-0301 wireless lan card. Well, support for other wireless lan cards like ipw2100, ipw2200 and ipw3945 is also there which is I think the best feature. Because I see a lot of people [...]

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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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