On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 08:38 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
On 2008-09-18, 19:21 GMT, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:43 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD
>> 2600 Series]
>>
>> I cannot get gdm to start in rawhide unless I use older versions of the
>> ati driver and xorg-x11-drivers.
>
>
> Current ATI drivers are not compatible with any xorg server version
> greater than 1.4.2. There will not be xorg server 1.5 compatibility
> until next month at the latest.
>
> There is a new ATI driver release as of yesterday (9-17-08) which
> includes a slew of bugfixes, including screen tearing during xvid play,
> but it still isnt' capable of working with xorg server 1.5.
>
> ATI users are best advised to use Fedora 8 at this time, which is a more
> stable platform anyway.
Who are you to put here such authoritative statements here? There
are many many people using Fedora 9 (and Rawhide) with ATI cards
and we are pretty happy with it.
I've run F9, I've got ATI, and I've got an opinion. If you don't like
my opinion then bite my ass.
LX
Matěj