--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Dave Stevens geek@uniserve.com wrote:
From: Dave Stevens geek@uniserve.com Subject: [CentOS] anyone using an ATI card and fglrx with 5.2? To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 10:31 AM And does it work ok? any special use cases or installation issues? I'm thinking of a 64 bit installation with an RV530 chipset.
Dave
Yes, I use it on a 3 year old Intel 32bit notebook. The fglrx.ko driver is built with the dkms model. When I installed it over a year ago, I found that the Arrfab repo (see below) was the best/only source at the time.
When you get it setup run
fgl_glxgears
This is a 3D screensaver. I get 453 fps.
lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
[root@hercules tlviewer]# rpm -qi ati-x11-drv Name : ati-x11-drv Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 8.40.4 Vendor: (none) Release : 2.el5 Build Date: Wed 22 Aug 2007 11:49:11 PM PDT Install Date: Tue 02 Oct 2007 12:37:46 AM PDT Build Host: helium.arrfab.net Group : User Interface/X Hardware Support Source RPM: ati-x11-drv-8.40.4-2.el5.src.rpm Size : 29803662 License: Proprietary Signature : RSA/SHA1, Mon 24 Sep 2007 03:38:08 AM PDT, Key ID d62946f59def3191 Packager : Fabian Arrotin fabian.arrotin@arrfab.net URL : http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html Summary : Proprietary ATI hardware accelerated OpenGL display driver Description : Proprietary ATI GL libraries, Xorg and Linux module for hardware accelerated OpenGL support.