Fedora 7
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007Fedora 7 is out! Aside from a pretty interesting theme the whole distro feels pretty good unless youre an ATI user in which case you should just stick to FC6 or be content with a resolution of 1024×768. Thats right, F7 has some problems with the fglrx proprietary drivers from ATI and it seems that ATI is in no rush to help so ATI users are stuck untill they release the next version sometime in June.
There is a solution however so do not despair.
Thanks to Jack Howarth who realized that using a different xorg-x11-xserver-Xorg version you could afterwards successfully install the fglrx drivers from ATI. You can see the article that suggests this here.
To keep things short here is what I did:
rpm -e –nodeps xorg-x11-server-Xorg
rpm -i xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.8.fc6.i386.rpm
That version of Xorg you can get from here or any other FC6 mirror.
Once you have that version of Xorg you can proceed to install the fglrx drivers, Xgl or whatever …