[How to ] enable 3D effects in fedora 12 ( constantine ) on a system having ATI graphics card


Fedora 12 provides "out of the box" support for kernel mode-setting with ATI R600/700 series graphics hardware, but it does not provide 3D acceleration by default. However, Red Hat's X developers have made it very easy to enable this 3D support for the ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series hardware by just installing a special Mesa package from yum.
To enable the open-source R600/700 3D support under Fedora 12 one must simply run


yum install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental

and then reboot their system

3 comments:

  1. You don't actually need to reboot the system, or even restart X. It starts working as soon as you install the package.

    It _is_ marked 'experimental' and not installed by default for a reason, though. On some hardware it won't work properly. On some it may work but cause other stuff to break. On some it may work partially or cause corruption or slowdowns. So, be ready to remove it if it doesn't work for you, and don't be too disappointed :)

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  2. i have a ATI Radeon HD 3650 card , in my laptop
    it is working flawlessly ........


    thanks for the tip ...!!

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  3. ATI Radeon 3000 Working like a charm =) Thank you

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