Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-13 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-03-12 08:17, Rex Dieter wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards, they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the open-source radeon driver (which works

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-13 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:17:12 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: > so, what should I install? I removed the catalyst software using the > uninstall.sh and now have the radeon driver in xorg.conf. At least > now I can move windows around without a lag.. should I install fglrx > drivers? No, you should no

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 03/13/2014 07:48 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > But what I remember is that this was not the case in recent years > (until last October, that is). Some years back when ATI announced the > release of the specs, there was a lot of hype about ATI supporting the > Linux community etc., but the actual

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-13 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:17:13 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in > > general and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish > > cards, they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the > > open-sourc

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 14:10:31 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards, they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the open-source radeon driver (which wo

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 03/12/2014 10:10 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > You want the Driver option to be "radeon". Or better yet, rename/remove > your xorg.conf file and let X configure itself automatically. I'm new to fedora. I know how to do that in Debian.. reconfigure-xserver-xorg I don't see a "radeon" driver, is f

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 03/12/2014 10:17 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general >> and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards, >> they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the >> open-source radeon drive

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general > and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards, > they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the > open-source radeon driver (which works well). For their high-end cards, >

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:11:01 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have googled & read all I could find, with no apparent solution in > sight. I have a Dell desktop with a Radeon HD 5670 video card : > lspci|grep VGA > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > [AMD/ATI] Redwood

AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have googled & read all I could find, with no apparent solution in sight. I have a Dell desktop with a Radeon HD 5670 video card : lspci|grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Redwood XT [Radeon HD 5670/5690/5730] I installed the amd catalyst via the f