From the article: "Once installing the patched Radeon driver, it immediately began working with our Diamond Radeon HD 4850 (identified as a Wekiva RV770 B50102 Board through AtomBIOS). Granted, of course,
Did you read the whole article? It may have been working, but not without some issues. It other words, it was not working 100%, it still had some things lacking. there is no 2D or 3D acceleration yet for the Radeon HD 4800 series. Once the R600 series has 2D/3D support, it should be easily ported to the RV770. The only other issue we have run into is the driver not being able to read the EDID information from the monitor. We have tried with multiple monitors and with all of them reading the EDID had failed, which resulted in the X server defaulting to 1280 x 768." Also see: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature My workstation at where I work had a newer ATI card in it. I could not use with the free driver in any combination due to the card having Display Port instead of DVI, so I had to go with the proprietary driver. Once support for the proprietary driver was dropped and having the old one stop working due to kernel and Xorg updates I finally just pulled it out and put in and Nvidia card. Every computer I've worked with over the past several years that had an ATI card it in I ended up replacing with an Nvidia card due to one issue or another (not being able to realiable watch movies, run compiz, connect more than one monitor, whatever). With ATI I'd have the setup working for a while, the some other update would come along and break it. I wish it were not that way. I'd rather have all opensoruce drivers in the the computers I use. When it comes to video cards, that just is not a reality yet for me. Well, 1 current exception. My laptop has an intel video chipset and I've had not any major problems with it using the free Xorg drivers, even with 3D stuff or compiz. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Antony Jepson<antonyat@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2009-06-17, Ricardo Hernandez wrote:
ATI noooooo!!! hehe. As commented above i'm almost 100% sure you'll have troubles. At least in my case, ATI 4850, i cannot use X at all. ATI has no support for kernel 2.6.29 yet and arch have a patch for that but it does not work for some card, for example my card. Xorg didn't recognize mi card even with the fglrx driver.
According to Phoronix[1] the ATI 4850 has worked with xf86-video-ati driver since day one.
[1]: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_rv770_oss&num=1
-- Sincerely,
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