I've been doing installation tests on a laptop with onboard ATI
Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) video. I have found
that when I install the latest driver
(ati-driver-installer-8.20.8-i386.run) the graphics acceleration feature
does not take and "fglrxinfo" defaults back to the Mesa drivers *except*
when I do an "everything" install on FC4. When I install "everything"
it
works and I get the proper message
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON XPRESS 200M Series SW TCL Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.5519 (X4.3.0-8.20.8)
when I do the "fglrxinfo" command. This happens even if I install kernel-devel
and gcc.
I'm thinking there must be some program(s) that I get with the "everything"
install that makes it possible to install the ATI driver. If anyone knows what it is
please let me know so I can just install that program rather than the
"everything" install.
Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/