Switch from fglrx (ati) to radeon (open source) drivers

[ocgltd]

After lots of problems with the fglrx driver from ATI, I'm thinking of trying the open source version. Being somewhat new to Linux (i.e. sorry if this is stupid):

1. How do I uninstall the ATI driver? just rpm erase them?
2. How do I switch to the open source radeon drivers (for an X1600 card)?

Thanks,
MD

[Michael]

After lots of problems with the fglrx driver from ATI, I'm thinking of trying the open source version. Being somewhat new to Linux (i.e. sorry if this is stupid):

1. How do I uninstall the ATI driver? just rpm erase them?
2. How do I switch to the open source radeon drivers (for an X1600 card)?

Thanks,
MD

1. What distribution are you on?

Well, more importantly, there is no open-source driver right now that supports the Radeon X1600 driver. So you are basically limited to using the closed-source fglrx driver.

[domzanator]

1. What distribution are you on?

Well, more importantly, there is no open-source driver right now that supports the Radeon X1600 driver. So you are basically limited to using the closed-source fglrx driver.

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 about it all but from my understanding the X1700 (24 pixel pipelines & 8 vertex) is just the X1600 (12 pixel pipelines & 5 vertex) manufactured in 2007. I tried downloading using "git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/avivo/xf86-video-avivo" and i've had no luck; when it comes to it how can i download this?

I'm newish to linux (sorry if any of this sounds stupid)

Thanks,
Dom

[Michael]

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 about it all but from my understanding the X1700 (24 pixel pipelines & 8 vertex) is just the X1600 (12 pixel pipelines & 5 vertex) manufactured in 2007. I tried downloading using "git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/avivo/xf86-video-avivo" and i've had no luck; when it comes to it how can i download this?

I'm newish to linux (sorry if any of this sounds stupid)

Thanks,
Dom

Dom,

The open-source R500 driver won't be working for normal desktop usage for a matter of months. After that, you can get and use it from git and it will be included in the new distributions at that time.