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Hi all,
I have bad news :( i got the new avivo git did the usual to compile it replace my xorg.conf with the avivo driver restarted my X Windows and all i could see some white. At least it doesn't...

Thanks; i'll give it a go tonight and let you know how i go.

Dom

Hey all,
I haven't resolved this problem yet; i ran the avivotool romtables mmap command and below is my output:-

If anyone has any suggestions i would it be appreciate greatly...

Thanks,
Dom...

Hey all,
As soon as i heard the open-source avivo driver had shadowFB support; i thought i would give it another go. However this time when i compiled it all and ran X. I received Fatal server...

Hi all,
The avivo driver works on fedora 7; i guessing it would work on ubuntu as well. But i wouldn't move to avivo drivers as of it; still get alot of tiering. I would stick to ATI drivers for...

Hey guys,

Just a quicky for all you FC7 lovers out there...
I stumbled upon a hickup when i did a yum update; it updated my xorg-x11-org from 1.2 back to 1.3. Good way to avoid this is:-

vi...

Hey mate,
I've got good news for ya the new ATI drivers work on FC7; i got them working ealier today.

Here's something i posted earlier today :p

I've just got it up and running on Fedora 7...

I've just got it up and running on Fedora 7 after afew alterations:-

Had to downgrade my x server-
rpm -U --oldpackage xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.2.0-6.fc7.i386.rpm

Ran the ati.run file; installed...

Why can't you use the open source driver? I must admit that there is no point going to the open-source as it is quite slow atm; i wonder what the ETA on each release will be like in comparison to...

Thanks Michael; that worked a treat. After all the reading i've done you would have thought i would have picked that up. Guess it wasn't my modeline after all. Loving the 1280x800 resolution :) I...

Thank you for making those modifications for me; i replaced the files and compiled it again. Now the problem is that when i start X with the usual resolution 1024x768 my screen goes all wacky. Could...

Thanks for the quick response... I'm sort of lost...
Could you please let me know what exactly to do?

Hi Michael,

I've had success in getting through all of these lines: -
yum install git libpciaccess-devel xorg-x11-server-sdk
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/avivo/xf86-video-avivo...

Hi all,

I've tried using the xf86-video-avivo open-source driver for ati but can't seem to get it working. Could someone please push me in the right direction?

This is my output:-
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Hi Michael,

I have a mobility X1700; once the open-source driver is released does this mean i can use the open source radeon driver which supports the X1600 with my card? I don't know to much...

Thanks Michael... Guess i'll have to wait until ati release 8.38 drivers; until then i'm just gonna have to live with 1024x768 resolution.

Hi all,

I have been trying and trying to get my x1700 working; i do regret purchasing a laptop with an ATI now :( I have tried installing ati-driver-installer-8.37.6-x86.x86_64.run. I all ask for...