Comments on: Fedora 12 ATI Catalyst Drivers

By: Birmingham SEO Experts

Birmingham SEO Experts — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:47:08 +0000

@Anthony Thyssen what address are you using for the RPMfusion?

Great blog post, cheers.

By: Anthony Thyssen

Anthony Thyssen — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:07:11 +0000

Just an update. Catalyst on the RPMfusion site has updated and is not working with the newer FC16 kernels again… Thank you to whoever updated it.

By: computer support birmingham

computer support birmingham — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 05:36:45 +0000

i am using HP tx2525 and I am really impressed. Fedora 11 was not so much supportive.

By: Anthony Thyssen

Anthony Thyssen — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:15:44 +0000

As a further note. while those large area refreshs are slow the GL drawing is very very fast, whcih is why I am using it.

However the ATI catalyst driver is now failing to compile its modules for the newest kernel (F16) or any of the current updates. I have been waiting of Catalyst to fix this from some time, but until the next release I am having to use a vanilia F16 release kernel from the initial F16 install distribution, and ensure patching does not update it or anything related.

Their are suposedally fixed for the modules involved, but they are manually patched, and I never had much luck getting them to work well afterward.

By: Richard@IT Support

Richard@IT Support — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:45:27 +0000

This didn’t work for us as well.

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.