The only complaint I have is that I cannot get 1600x1200dpi on my AT Radeon HD3650 like I was able to get with F7 and F9 and the ATI drivers.

I can’t see that my hardware should not be so different from yours that the functionality would be borked: MSI K9A2 Platinum MOBO w/ AMD 790FX chipset, AMD Phenom 9850 Black Ed., Sapphire HD3650 512MB video

If you really can’t stand the experimental driver functionality, give your nVidia card a try.

If you’ve only used RH/Fedora, you may not like SuSe. I used to administrate a combined SuSe/RHEL shop and the differences were enough to drive me crazy. The great thing about SuSe is the YaST system administration. I wish RH/Fedora would work on something like this, but YaST was just not enough to warm me up to SuSe. I found it to be much more cranky, and the filesystem org and debian-style tools were just not intuitive to my RH-conditioned brain.

On the other hand, you might find you like SuSe more than the RH structure.

– Big thumbs down on functionality here. Haven’t tried the experimental driver yet. I have an nVidia card, maybe I’ll just toss this and give that go? Or maybe try Suse? These drivers are supposed to be compatible with that, but I’ve been using RH/FC since I first installed RH 6, so I’m kinda partial to staying with what I know and like.

– Gigabit MA790GPT-UD3H mobo, Radeon HD 3300 on-board w/ 12MB “sideport” RAM, Phenom X3 BE, FC12 x86_64 d/led via torrent yesterday. (ratio only up to .22 – crap but this is slow)

Getting to a console to recover the video seems to depend on the kernel that was installed. At least thats the way it’s happening for me.

I noticed that with the 32-bit 2.6.31.x.PAE kernel (F12 default on multi-core/multi-proc), the ATI kernel module functions well enough for me to switch to a console (I usually use CTRL-ALT-F1, F2, F3… The consoles on F5 and F6 are not always functional for some reason, and F7 is the X session).

On the 2.6.31.x.x86_64 kernel, however, the ATI driver killed all access to the console screens for me. and I was unable to uninstall the driver without a rescue session. I wrote in below, yesterday, before trying out the x86_64 install again. I had to send a hard “SIGHUP” to the system the same way you did–with the power button.

I have tried the GoFedora install instructions on the page you linked, and they don’t work for me. I don’t know if it’s video card/chip set related, or if the driver kernel module just does not really function well with the new F12 kernel configurations. And, I don’t have the patience to try recompiling the kernel to get it working.

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The mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package does work to provide 3D graphics and desktop effects on my Sapphire ATI HD3650. Some here have commented that the acceleration looks choppy, and that is true. Even when scrolling in FireFox, the page scroll is not as smooth as it should be. But, the experimental drivers do function. I am thinking about leaving the experimental mesa drivers there and forgetting about ATI for now.

If anyone here knows whather my hardware may be to blame, here’s the basic rundown: MSI K9A2 Platinum MOBO w/ AMD 790FX chipset, AMD Phenom 9850 Black Ed., Sapphire HD3650 512MB video.

I’m not liking the ATI provided drivers, and I think I’m going to pass on them for a while at least.

The uninstall script (/usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh) did work “swimmingly”, though. So, I have to hand it to ATI to set the system back to “normal” again. NVidia can’t seem to get that much right.

One note on the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. It is working for me. I have compiz functional without the ATI catalyst driver–which is nice.

I am having the same problem with F12. I haven’t used Fedora in a while and decided to give it another try. I like what I see so far, but when I installed the ati driver, the logs all looked good, but when I reboot I get a black screen. I tried pressing ctrl+alt+F5 to get a console window, but nothing. The only thing I can do is press the power button and it will gracefully shutdown.

I haven’t follwed your instructions at http://gofedora.com/how-to-install-ati-catalyst-fglrx-98-drivers-fedora-11/ yet, I am at work and will try these when I get home. Is there anything else I might try?

+1 confirmation: FC12(x86_64) + driver downloaded from ati site for HD4850 does not work.

Did anyone play around with mesa-dri-drivers-experimental?