Comments on: Fedora 12 ATI Catalyst Drivers

By: Anthony Thyssen

Anthony Thyssen — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:31:36 +0000

I tried the suggestion, then reboots but it did not make any difference.
Background drawing and xterm visual bells, can still be senn visually updating from top to bottom.

As for kernel updates. Well unless you have some suggestion, I ended up having to uninstall and re-install the ATI driver after a kernel update.

By: Anthony Thyssen

Anthony Thyssen — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:07:19 +0000

Thanks, I’ll give it a go.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:20:25 +0000

I tried ATI Catalyst 10.7 on Fedora12 64 Bit.
It worked for me – see my other postings.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:02:49 +0000

@Anthony Thyssen
I tried Catalyst 10.7 ..running Fedora12 ..
one of the most primative X window operations, background setting, have shown the worst performance I have ever seen

After a successful ATI Catalyst installation on Fedora12 2D performance may be worse. Try to run
aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE
and to add following line to the Device-part in xorg.conf:
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"

to solve this problem.

By: Anthony Thyssen

Anthony Thyssen — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:43:40 +0000

PS: the AIT driver was directly downloaded and directly installed from ATI. I did not use intermediate RPM packages for it. And no I have not yet attempted a kernel update with it, so I have yet to discover how well it handles that situation.

By: Anthony Thyssen

Anthony Thyssen — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:33:05 +0000

As I mentioned previously I tried Catalyst 10.7 on my new Dell Studio XPS 1645 machine running fedora 12, and the speed improvements in anything involving 3D or direct rendering have been absolutely fantastic. I have the fastest glxgear results I have ever seen.

However one of the most primative X window operations, background setting, have shown the worst performance I have ever seen! Even worse than the old X10 in 1988 when X windows first made an appearence on SUN graphic workstations of the time.

For example, XTerm’s (Yes I still like to use XTerms over all the newer terminal applications), Xterm visiual bell, does not ‘flash’ the terminal window, but updates so slowly you can see the reverse video scrolling down the window and then a revse back again (also top to bottom) afterward. Background display updates, such as the supposed fade-in of the login window is also a visible the background updated 6 times or so form top to bottom.

I can live with this as few applications seem to be effected. I did however report it. But it can be a little disconcerting.

The BIGGEST problem however is that the display completely locks up if any form of idle time screen blanking starts. I have solved this temporarily by ensuring power management never puts the display to sleep, when my machine is idle (inactive).

ASIDE: I never did get the mesa DRI driver to work. Though will probably try it with the next OS upgrade.

By: jack

jack — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:49:29 +0000

Now it is possible to install ati driver on Fedora 12!

See
http://madathilunni.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/installing-ati-catalyst-driver-10-6-fglrx-in-fedora-12/

for details!

Cheers,

Jack

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:47:44 +0000

Now it is possible to install ati Catalyst driver on Fedora 12!

See
http://madathilunni.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/installing-ati-catalyst-driver-10-6-fglrx-in-fedora-12/

for details!

Cheers,

Jack

By: Anthony Thyssen

Anthony Thyssen — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:59:59 +0000

That is now up to version 10.7 though the download page still says 10.6. I’ll be trying it soon.

By: rsatheesh

rsatheesh — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:13:10 +0000

any tried Fedora 12 64bit with 10.6 ATI Catalyst