On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:04:57 -0500
"Gregory P. Ennis" <PoMec@PoMec.Net> wrote:

>
> > On 21-03-12 04:36, Jean Jacques wrote:
> > > I cannot search the driver in YUM.
> >
> > The Catalyst driver lives in the rpmfusion repo so if you don't
> > have that installed then you first need to add it. Information how
> > to do that can be found at: http://rpmfusion.org
>
> Except that it's broken on 3.2.9 and later kernels.
>
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2208
>
> kevin
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Kevin,
>
> Thanks for posting the bug report. I have been chasing a problem
> with a "ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648" Do you know if the support
> of these types of cards will be incorporated into the Fedora
> repositories or are there opensource problems that prohibit their
> use. Maybe we need to come up with an 'opensource' sticker that the
> manufacturers can use.

I have no idea about that specific card, but it should be easy to use a
Fedora live media and test it out and see how well it works.

kevin
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:42:17 -0600,
Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com> wrote:

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:04:57 -0500
"Gregory P. Ennis" <PoMec@PoMec.Net> wrote:


Thanks for posting the bug report. I have been chasing a problem
with a "ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648" Do you know if the support
of these types of cards will be incorporated into the Fedora
repositories or are there opensource problems that prohibit their
use. Maybe we need to come up with an 'opensource' sticker that the
manufacturers can use.


I have no idea about that specific card, but it should be easy to use a
Fedora live media and test it out and see how well it works.


It looks like it is a AMD Radeon HD 6480G.
I believe those are supported by the radeon driver.
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 16:36, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec@pomec.net> wrote:
> Junayeed,
>
> Although I have appreciation for the people working on catalyst, it
> surely does not work on my system as well. *I did a yum search on imo
> but did not get much. *Can you give me a little more information as to
> what you mean by IMO.
>

He meant the radeon driver. IMO stands for "in my opinion".

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 16:36, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec@pomec.net> wrote:
> Junayeed,
>
> Although I have appreciation for the people working on catalyst, it
> surely does not work on my system as well. I did a yum search on imo
> but did not get much. Can you give me a little more information as to
> what you mean by IMO.
>

He meant the radeon driver. IMO stands for "in my opinion".

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Well, guess you can see that I don't do much 'texting' thanks for
pointer to the radeon driver!!!

Greg

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>
> > On 21-03-12 04:36, Jean Jacques wrote:
> > > I cannot search the driver in YUM.
> >
> > The Catalyst driver lives in the rpmfusion repo so if you don't
> > have that installed then you first need to add it. Information how
> > to do that can be found at: http://rpmfusion.org
>
> Except that it's broken on 3.2.9 and later kernels.
>
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2208
>
> kevin
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Kevin,
>
> Thanks for posting the bug report. I have been chasing a problem
> with a "ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648" Do you know if the support
> of these types of cards will be incorporated into the Fedora
> repositories or are there opensource problems that prohibit their
> use. Maybe we need to come up with an 'opensource' sticker that the
> manufacturers can use.

I have no idea about that specific card, but it should be easy to use a
Fedora live media and test it out and see how well it works.

kevin
----------------------------------------------------------

Kevin,

Thanks for your post. It would not work with the FC16 LiveCD, but it
did work with FC17-Alpha LiveCD. 17 is going to be out in a couple of
months so maybe there is some hope for using gnome3 on this HP Pavillon
g7 laptop.

Greg

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On 03/28/2012 10:46 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

Kevin,
Thanks for your post. It would not work with the FC16 LiveCD, but
it
did work with FC17-Alpha LiveCD. 17 is going to be out in a couple
of
months so maybe there is some hope for using gnome3 on this HP
Pavillon
g7 laptop.



Did u try KDE? Just to be sure, you're sure it's the Kernel that's
having the issue not the DE?



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On 03/28/2012 10:46 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Kevin, Thanks for your post. It would not work with the FC16 LiveCD,
> but it did work with FC17-Alpha LiveCD. 17 is going to be out in a
> couple of months so maybe there is some hope for using gnome3 on this
> HP Pavillon g7 laptop.

Did u try KDE? Just to be sure, you're sure it's the Kernel that's
having the issue not the DE?

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--------------------------------------------

Junayeed,

Yes, I have used KDE, as well as XFCE without a problem. This appears
to be a gnome3 issue. Interesting thing is that when I first put F16 on
the system gnome3 did not work, but after they made some kernel updates
and with akmod-catalyst gnome3 worked for a long time. About a month
ago gnome3 stopped working again. I thought I had dome something to it
myself so I did a new install of F16, and have never had gnome3 working
on the new install. I have been able to get gnome3 to work with the
F17-LiveCD on this machine so there has been some good changes there. I
plan to limp along with what I have, and do a fresh install of 17 when
it comes out.

Greg

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On 03/29/2012 01:07 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:


On 03/28/2012 10:46 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:


Kevin, Thanks for your post. It would not work with the FC16 LiveCD,
but it did work with FC17-Alpha LiveCD. 17 is going to be out in a
couple of months so maybe there is some hope for using gnome3 on this
HP Pavillon g7 laptop.



Did u try KDE? Just to be sure, you're sure it's the Kernel that's
having the issue not the DE?





Junayeed,

Yes, I have used KDE, as well as XFCE without a problem. This appears
to be a gnome3 issue. Interesting thing is that when I first put F16 on
the system gnome3 did not work, but after they made some kernel updates
and with akmod-catalyst gnome3 worked for a long time. About a month
ago gnome3 stopped working again. I thought I had dome something to it
myself so I did a new install of F16, and have never had gnome3 working
on the new install. I have been able to get gnome3 to work with the
F17-LiveCD on this machine so there has been some good changes there. I
plan to limp along with what I have, and do a fresh install of 17 when
it comes out.

Greg




That's why its a good idea to versionlock things like AMD Graphics
card driver with whatever kernel that seems to work.



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