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  • spielc
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    Originally posted by zkyez View Post
    since October is coming fast, any inside information about the new driver and aiglx?
    I think that Michael will be very careful with announcements after the "fiasco" with the last version of the driver

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  • zkyez
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    since October is coming fast, any inside information about the new driver and aiglx?

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  • Thetargos
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    Originally posted by Sunvil VonBerUrlindt View Post
    What do you mean? ATI cards run an excellent virtual 1200x000 screen (VESA) as is. However, I would like for this driver to work; I can blame myself for picking Fedora 8 test 2 (libstdc++.so.6 and no .5 for such things as Opera and these ATI drivers, yet!) Anyone know how to fake it? Load libstdc++ 5 source from Fedora 7 and recompile the kernel and libc?
    You need to install compat-libstdc++, search for it with Pirut or yum.

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  • Snake
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    Originally posted by Sunvil VonBerUrlindt View Post
    I can blame myself for picking Fedora 8 test 2 (libstdc++.so.6 and no .5 for such things as Opera and these ATI drivers, yet!) Anyone know how to fake it? Load libstdc++ 5 source from Fedora 7 and recompile the kernel and libc?
    I do not use Fedora, but look for a package named libstdc++-v3. No need to recompile anything after installing that one. But as you seem to run at 64-Bit you might want to have a look at this thread, too.

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  • Sunvil VonBerUrlindt
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    What do you mean? ATI cards run an excellent virtual 1200x000 screen (VESA) as is. However, I would like for this driver to work; I can blame myself for picking Fedora 8 test 2 (libstdc++.so.6 and no .5 for such things as Opera and these ATI drivers, yet!) Anyone know how to fake it? Load libstdc++ 5 source from Fedora 7 and recompile the kernel and libc?

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  • khakhovich
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    as a side note, wanted to ad, that this driver also break openoffice on my _64 platform. as soon as i roll back driver openoffice functioning just fine.

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  • Uchikoma
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    Well, it's only 6 months wait. xD
    I've been using ATI since the Rage 128 Pro days, so if I have to wait another 6 months for a stable, good open source driver, it's a drop in the bucket ^^

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  • Svartalf
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    Originally posted by yoshi314 View Post
    oh, well. i don't care about them anymore. i like my ati cards with opensource drivers, because ati apparently still cannot get it together :/

    i wouldn't mind a laptop with an ati card, as long as it would be supported by opensource drivers.
    Give the developers 6 months from getting the 3D info and you might just get your desires. As it stands, ATI's still sort of a non-choice. Until it's robust for more than just a select set of R600 devices, it's not a good choice unless you're willing to put up with issues in your system.

    Honestly, I'm not.

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  • Svartalf
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    Originally posted by jd10008 View Post
    Unfortunately, when buying a laptop, you cannot pick and
    choose your graphics chip. More often than not, it is
    not the primary consideration. Still, that does not
    excuse ATI (now part of AMD) from building rock solid
    and well working Linux drivers for all their chipsets.
    Heh... Considering that I did just that, chose my GPU. There were two choices for GPU- one ATI and one NVidia for the DV9000 that I was buying. I bought NVidia.

    In the end, it's that you're talking about a budget laptop that it becomes an issue of not having many choices. But, even then, if you're not against using Intel, you've got choices.

    When you're buying a Laptop, everything should be a consideration, including parts choices. Even with Windows it should be that way.

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  • chabo
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    Originally posted by lockheed02 View Post
    I had the same problem which already started in FC6 from a certain driver version. As workaround I could use "zapping" back then (less quality but borking). But now I'm on F7 (x86_64) and this doesn't work anymore.

    New workaround which at least works for me:

    mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:input=1:width=576:height=432

    I found this at http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/36906/?start=0

    where the original mencoder command is posted

    btw, I still use driver 8.40.4 with my Radeon X1600 Pro.
    Thanks
    It seems that problem with xvideo YUY2 is only with 64bit version of driver, cuase i've read post, where people manage this problem with seting "VideoOverlay" "on" and "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

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