Driver to Radeon HD 4200?

[Erik P. Olsen-3]

I have recently installed  motherboard M4A785TD-M EVO from ASUS. It has an
integrated ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics adapter.

With that I can build a Fedora 12 beta system using basic video and the result
is OK for most applications. But I would like to go a bit further, so which
driver should I install? Apparently there are fglrx and catalyst; which one
should I prefer? Or are there other possibilities?

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[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 13:12:58 +0100,
  "Erik P. Olsen" <epodata@...> wrote:
> I have recently installed  motherboard M4A785TD-M EVO from ASUS. It has an
> integrated ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics adapter.
>
> With that I can build a Fedora 12 beta system using basic video and the result
> is OK for most applications. But I would like to go a bit further, so which
> driver should I install? Apparently there are fglrx and catalyst; which one
> should I prefer? Or are there other possibilities?

The radeon driver did get noticibly better after the beta. Also did you
install the experimental driver (mesa-dri-drivers-experimental)? If you
didn't than you weren't seeing them at their best.

I don't use the nonfree radeon drivers so I am not sure how well those work.
rpmfusion is normally the place you want to get those.

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[Gianluca Sforna]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@...> wrote:
> rpmfusion is normally the place you want to get those.

Right. If you want to go that route you need the catalyst one.


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[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:44:53PM +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@...> wrote:
> > rpmfusion is normally the place you want to get those.
>
> Right. If you want to go that route you need the catalyst one.

I'd *highly* recommend trying the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
package first.  Install, restart X, and then try glxgears or compiz
out to see results.  This works on my brand new Radeon HD 4850, for
example, which shocked, astounded, and delighted me. :-)

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[Erik P. Olsen-3]

On 02/11/09 15:54, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:44:53PM +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@...> wrote:
>>> rpmfusion is normally the place you want to get those.
>> Right. If you want to go that route you need the catalyst one.
>
> I'd *highly* recommend trying the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
> package first.  Install, restart X, and then try glxgears or compiz
> out to see results.  This works on my brand new Radeon HD 4850, for
> example, which shocked, astounded, and delighted me. :-)
>

You are right it's absolutely marvellous.

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[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:02:43PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

> On 02/11/09 15:54, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:44:53PM +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@...> wrote:
> >>> rpmfusion is normally the place you want to get those.
> >> Right. If you want to go that route you need the catalyst one.
> >
> > I'd *highly* recommend trying the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
> > package first.  Install, restart X, and then try glxgears or compiz
> > out to see results.  This works on my brand new Radeon HD 4850, for
> > example, which shocked, astounded, and delighted me. :-)
> >
> You are right it's absolutely marvellous.

There is a chance you *might* see some graphics tearing in Firefox,
but I've tried a newer kernel build that seems to have taken care of
this nicely.  If it's not part of F12 final, you should see an update
very shortly afterward that will fix that problem.  (I only saw it
when not running compiz, IIRC.)

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[Erik P. Olsen-3]

On 03/11/09 00:06, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:02:43PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> On 02/11/09 15:54, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>> I'd *highly* recommend trying the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
>>> package first.  Install, restart X, and then try glxgears or compiz
>>> out to see results.  This works on my brand new Radeon HD 4850, for
>>> example, which shocked, astounded, and delighted me. :-)
>>>
>> You are right it's absolutely marvellous.
>
> There is a chance you *might* see some graphics tearing in Firefox,
> but I've tried a newer kernel build that seems to have taken care of
> this nicely.  If it's not part of F12 final, you should see an update
> very shortly afterward that will fix that problem.  (I only saw it
> when not running compiz, IIRC.)
>

Haven't seen that yet. I am still running F10 normally but plan to switch to F12
as soon as final is available, although it may take a while before I get it
operational.

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