For those of you like me who are anxious to install Fedora 7, you might
need to wait a while. If you have an ATI video card it won't work with
the proprietary drivers, which are required to get the TV-Out and 3D
stuff working. See this thread on Phoronix
<http://www.phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3085&page=1> for more
info.
Quoting Michael Larabel, package maintainer for ATI:
<quote>
Okay, here's the scoop on Fedora 7. With AMD fixing the X 1.3 problem,
the drivers will build. However, when you install the RPMs for Fedora 7,
aticonfig will crash and will remove your xorg.conf (though the original
is renamed). If you manually update your xorg.conf and then restart X,
fglrx will fail to load and you'll find a backtrace in your Xorg.0.log.
So if you need the fglrx drivers to survive, don't upgrade to Fedora 7
just yet. Stay tuned to the forums for more information. This issue with
8.37 should not cause problems with Fedora Core 6 or previous versions.
</quote>
The latest chips also won't work with the open-source radeon drivers.
I'm starting to think my laptop is going to be stuck on FC5 just because
of the video chip. I had to backport patches to the older 8.27.10 driver
to get my video to work.
Gus
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