[arch-general] New 64 bit computer

[Antony Jepson]

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

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Sincerely,

Antony Jepson /  <antonyat at gmail.com> / GPG Key: 0xFA10ED80