On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:26 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote:
You did mean that the ati driver that comes with the xorg in the F8 distro would not work, but that the fglrx from livna has a chance to work right????
No it won't.
I just updated the system from F8T3 to the current rawhide set (including the kernel), rebooted and then `yum install kmod-fglrx`. after rebooting again so that the xorg.conf got built by the livna stuff, I did a startx and ... got the same result as the vesa driver, i.e., locked system and black screen. AAAAGGGHH!
The fglrx driver, 8.42.3 I believe, won't work with current F8/rawhide as it doesn't support the 2.6.23 kernel. There should be another release this month that should support it then (don't quote me on this but this is what I have heard).
So you are stuck using the vesa driver, or you can wait and at least try the radeonhd driver as well.