Fedora Hardware :: ATI Support For Non-3D-intensive Use
Dec 20, 2009
i'm thinking of getting either an ati radeon 4670, 4770, or 5750. i dual-boot, linux 90% of the time (currently fedora 10, might switch to f12 if advisable), 10% of the time i boot into windows xp to play games. currently my card is an 8600gts, and it's ok for me in linux. i actually don't do any 3d stuff in my desktop during linux - no compiz, no 3d gaming, nothing.
aside from my software development work and r&d stuff, i also just use it for watching the occasional videos vid (sometimes unwittingly, like getting rickrolled, heh) and watching movies in totem (mostly .avi ones). oh, and it has to be able to do a "correct" resolution, not stuck on low-res 800x600 or 1024x768 (as was my experience having to use mesa on a low-end ati igp, not my box though). my resolution is currently 1280x1024, but i will also be upgrading to a new monitor which will do either 1440x900 or 1600x900 (haven't decided yet on the monitor model)
for these purposes, will the aforementioned ati cards work out of the box? basically, it just has to be able to support the proper resolution of my monitor, and not screw up video playback. that's it. no 3d involved as far as i can gather.
identify the right network structure for a data intensive website, built on LAMP. I'm thinking of a load balanced website, and that it should have a mysql master/slave setup server. I'm no expert in this area, so any online resources are welcome. You can check out the website [URL] - but it will have 10 million items once the hardware can support it.
I've just noticed that "nicing" long running computationally intensive, I/O unintensive, single-threaded executables on my system increases the CPU run time of those executables (as reported by /usr/bin/time as well as by wall clock) by a factor of 2-3 even in the absence of any load, i.e., "top" tells me that my program is getting 100% of a CPU. For example:
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My system is running Ubuntu 7.10. If I run the same executable on two other machines I have access to -- one running Fedora 5 and the other Ubuntu 9.10 -- I don't see any discrepancy between the runtimes using nice and not using nice.
This behavior is executable independent, compiler dependent, and language dependent -- I'm seeing it across the board. I'm assuming I've somehow configured my system to behave this way, but I have no idea what I may have done. Also, this was the first time I'd ever done timing runs with "nice" (actually, "at"), so I'm not sure how long my system's been configured (if configured is the right word) this way.
i am trying to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 from 8.04, and am getting this warning:"Upgrading may reduce desktop effects, and performance in games and other graphically intensive programs.This computer is currently using the AMD 'fglrx' graphics driver. No version of this driver is available that works with your hardware in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.Do you want to continue?"should i continue? i have no idea what a 'fglrx graphics driver' is
I'm trying to find out when QME2572 (Qlogic) card became support by the kernel. We have a RHEL 5.1 system that is moving to new hardware, however the kernel at this release doesn't support the new hardware, due to the Qlogic card change. I tired the Redhat KB and Bugzilla. Is there a Kernel change list etc I can search. Never really played around with the kernel too much so I'm just after some pointers for looking up this information. Offically its not supported until Redhat 5.3, I'm trying trying to research kernel info so I can tell the customer they have to upgrade.
I have a HP laptop which can support 1600x900. But after I install ubuntu 9.10 on it, it can only support up to 1280x700. My laptop has a Nvidia graphics card. And i am using GNOME as my desktop environment.
I'm looking to dual-boot Windows 7 and Debian 6 upon its release on my sister's laptop. I want to share a partition between the two of them so that /home points to this directory and the Windows equivalent also points to it (C:Users).
Anyway, I've heard good and bad things about the NTFSMount driver (I think it's NTFS-3G now) and the NTFSprogs project and so I am not so certain what I should believe. I do know that NTFS has relatively high overhead, though I do not recall the source of this assertion, so I am considering the use of EXFAT. An open source EXFAT project is hosted on Google Code at [url] and it utilizes the kernel module FUSE.
I'm quite certain that I've got everything covered on the Windows side -- that is, I know that both NTFS and EXFAT will be suitable filesystems for my required usage.
My issue is that I'm curious which will have superior performance and stability in Debian. I planned on building the package from source and mounting the device in my FSTAB but I have also found a PPA for Ubuntu on Launchpad at [url] that I could borrow the debian/rules from and make a .deb package from.
What do you guys think? Should I go at it with the EXFAT or NTFS partitioning? Is NTFS-3G actually fairly supported at this point? Or perhaps should I consider some alternate method?
I have also considered that the only files she will be sharing are those of music, videos, and pictures so it could be better to just link /home/xxxx/Pictures (Music and Videos, too) to the new partition instead of all of /home.
In the Description of Evince, the document viewer supports pdf, tiff, rtf and djvu, but when I want to open a djvu file in Evince, I got the yellow frame saying that Evince does not support djvu files.I searched for a librairy or a plugin for Evince to help it support djvu but I didn't find anything.How to teach Evince to read djvu ?
I liked the feel that I got from KDE from my short experiment with Arch. So I decided to use KDE with Fedora, and I like the results.
The only problem I'm finding with it is that I can't find a way to get mp3s to play with KDE apps. I can get Banshee to play them with gstreamer. The problem is that no matter what method I use to get KDE apps to play the files (like Amarok), they won't work.
I've tried the following commands.
Code: su -c 'yum -y install kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree id3v2'
Gives me an error saying that kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree doesn't exist.
Code: su -c 'yum install xine-lib-extras-nonfree id3v2'
This installed perfectly, but mp3 playback still does not work.
I don't see nfs listed in /proc/filesystems. Does that mean it is not supported? Is it possible to make it available for Fedora 11? You know, assume I don't want to compile my own kernel?
I've heard back and forth about whether the generic ATI drivers in Fedora 11 provides functional 3d support...as of installing F11 (64) i was impressed by the initial capability of the generic drivers but no 3d support as Desktop Effects could not be enabled.( using ATI Radeon HD 2400 ) what are the usual tips and tricks to get 3d functionality in this environment?
Can I virtualize XP on Fedora 12 with 3D support using say KVM? If so, how can I do this? I have a GeForce GTX 260 vid card which is supported by Fedora 12.
I know this can be a touchy subject but I would like to find MP3 support for K3b & Xmms, I am a big fan of the Banshee music player and have used it with MP3 support provided by FLUENDO [url] in many Linux distro's. I can play mp3s in Banshee thanks to FLUENDO, however when I open k3d or Xmms I am presented with an opening message that an mp3 plug-in for those apps cannot be found. Can anyone suggest any packages that will enable mp3 support in these applications?
I am trying to convert my own CD's that I own into .MP3 format for my Sony 16GB MP3 Walkman. I did some looking on Google and found these free/nonfree repositories that you can add and then update YUM, etc....well I still can not get it to work. I am rather new to Linux. I am trying to use Audio CD Extractor under applications/sound & Video. It does not work in Rythmbox either. What do I do now? I am trying to use Linux day in and day out and no longer use Windows.
I've been looking for a decent printer for my Fedora 13 box and found that the Lexmark X 2670 Color Ink-jet -Printer is Linux compatible, just wanted to see if anyone had any advice or experience with this printer model and also wanted to know if it would be possible to share this printer on the network through the Fedora box so both Windows and Mac machines can access the printer.
So it looks like the CUPS package provided by Fedora is not compiled with SSL support. I'm getting an error while trying to print via IPP over URL...Is there a way to enable SSL without rebuilding the package? If no, how do I rebuild the package?
I've been trying to install gd with png support. libpng is installed on my server, but for some reason the png.h file isn't anywhere to be found. So, I can't install gd with png support. I'm a linux dummy, so I'm not sure what I need to do to get the headers installed. I did manage to find libpng rpm. I don't know how to make it install headers.
how much ram centos5.3 will support , can centos 5.3 support quadcore processor intel xeon 3ghz,if supported which motherboard is compatible .saas hard drive 1 TB is supported for centos5.3.
I found Fedora 13 says in in the effects option, that it needs 3D support, my computer has a Nvidia graphics card, si I expect it needs a driver. How does this go. Must I search manually?
Well, after installing the 64-bit RTM release of Windows 7, I finally became too fed up to stand it anymore. My BIOS does not recognize more than 3 GBs of RAM and therefore even my 64-bit Operating Systems (Windows 7 and Fedora 11) can't see or use the extra gig. Is there any way to get another BIOS or to add the support to my existing BIOS?
Oh, before I forget, I am using an Acer Aspire 5630 incase the model is required.
