2009/6/8 Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 09:41:34 -0700, > Suvayu Ali <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I wanted to check with you whether this is feasible before I attempted >> it. I use a ATI HD4870 so I _need_ the proprietary drivers for a working >> GUI. However they don't support 2.6.29 yet. So I was advised on the >> RPMFusion list, that if I really wanted to upgrade to F11, I install F11 >> downgrade the kernel to 2.6.27 and use akmod. >> >> I had some concerns about the use of stronger hashes[1] in F11, but I >> was told they are backwards compatible. So my question is, would >> installing F11 and using the F10 kernel rpms to downgrade the kernel to >> 2.6.27 to use proprietary drivers from RPMFusion along with akmod be >> good idea? > > Some of the graphics stuff has minimum kernel levels. In particular with > all of the KMS work going on there is a good chance it won't be easy to make > this work. If 2D accelleration is good enough you should get that right now > with the open source drivers. >
2D acceleration is good enough for me. I don't even run compiz. But the open source drivers can't even boot to runlevel 5 for my hardware, let alone a working desktop. I had to do a text install to get F10 on this box. I got a working gui only after I got the fglrx stuff from RPMFusion installed from runlevel 3. However I have to admit the last time I tried the open source drivers was early this year (around February-March). Have they changed enough to warrant another try? -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
