Fedora 12 on ati radeon laptop

[suvayu ali]

2010/1/19 Kevin J. Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>:
> On 01/18/2010 06:04 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote:
>> how can I get dual monitors working on it? I dont care about 3D. I enabled the
>> rpmfusion repos. I tried to install the kmod-fglrx package via yum but I get a
>> message that no package kmod-fglrx is available.
>
>        I have F11 installed on my ASUS laptop and used to use the fglrx
> drivers for it (Mobility Radeon X1600) on FC6 and F9.  As of F11, fglrx
> is no longer available.  ATI/AMD have renamed it catalyst, and it no
> longer supports the older cards that used to need fglrx.  What I can

Don't you mean fglrx/catalyst is not available for Fedora 12? The OP
can also try
mesa-dri-drivers-experimental if he chooses to stay with open source drivers.

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