the livna driver is the same driver, properly setup so it doesnt overwrite other important files. The ATI .run file will cream your xorg setup. Use the livna drivers. Here is good advice : https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg01565.html

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com <mailto:subscribed-lists@sterndata.com>> wrote: max bianco wrote: > I had previously installed and removed the ati driver (from livna) > because it was causing some distortion on my desktop. I did not have > time to deal with the problem then so its been on the back burner for > awhile now. Just yesterday i reinstalled but nothing appears to have > changed. The difference is now I would like/ want to use 3d > acceleration. The distortion appears on the bottom of the desktop. The > top of my screen is reappearing over the bottom 2 or 3 inches of the > screen. The computer remains usable but some programs are affected more > than others by this phenomenon. Obviously I would like the distortion to > go away. I haven't seen this issue using the livna drivers with other > Fedora boxes but those have different video cards than this one. > My video card is an ATI Radeon X1800 256MB. Is there some modification > that can be made to xorg.conf that will fix this? Has anyone seen this > problem? can anyone point me to a solution? I am in the process of > researching a solution using google, bugzilla, and this list. Any and > all responses welcome. > > > Max > Have you tried the latest drivers directly from ATI? No i had not but i am going to. The livna driver is just the ATI driver repackaged isn't it? I didn't think there was a substantial difference between the two. Thanks, Max

I had previously installed and removed the ati driver (from livna) because it was causing some distortion on my desktop. I did not have time to deal with the problem then so its been on the back burner for awhile now. Just yesterday i reinstalled but nothing appears to have changed. The difference is now I would like/ want to use 3d acceleration. The distortion appears on the bottom of the desktop. The top of my screen is reappearing over the bottom 2 or 3 inches of the screen. The computer remains usable but some programs are affected more than others by this phenomenon. Obviously I would like the distortion to go away. I haven't seen this issue using the livna drivers with other Fedora boxes but those have different video cards than this one. My video card is an ATI Radeon X1800 256MB. Is there some modification that can be made to xorg.conf that will fix this? Has anyone seen this problem? can anyone point me to a solution? I am in the process of researching a solution using google, bugzilla, and this list. Any and all responses welcome. Max

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Alan <alan(a)clueserver.org&gt; wrote: > > > > > I had previously installed and removed the ati driver (from livna) because > > it was causing some distortion on my desktop. I did not have time to deal > > with the problem then so its been on the back burner for awhile now. Just > > yesterday i reinstalled but nothing appears to have changed. The > > difference > > is now I would like/ want to use 3d acceleration. The distortion appears > > on > > the bottom of the desktop. The top of my screen is reappearing over the > > bottom 2 or 3 inches of the screen. The computer remains usable but some > > programs are affected more than others by this phenomenon. Obviously I > > would > > like the distortion to go away. I haven't seen this issue using the livna > > drivers with other Fedora boxes but those have different video cards than > > this one. > > My video card is an ATI Radeon X1800 256MB. Is there some modification > > that > > can be made to xorg.conf that will fix this? Has anyone seen this problem? > > can anyone point me to a solution? I am in the process of researching a > > solution using google, bugzilla, and this list. Any and all responses > > welcome. > > This sounds more like a hardware failure about to happen. > > I really wish there was a memtest86 for video cards. > > I had not considered that possibility. It could indeed be a hardware problem but i don't have any issues when i run without the livna driver. If i was having a video card problem shouldn't I have general video issues that don't revolve around the livna driver? I am out of the loop on video driver issues(something i used to keep up with), what, if any, other driver can i use? Is the driver offered by livna the open source or proprietary driver? Thanks, Max

I had previously installed and removed the ati driver (from livna) because it was causing some distortion on my desktop. I did not have time to deal with the problem then so its been on the back burner for awhile now. Just yesterday i reinstalled but nothing appears to have changed. The difference is now I would like/ want to use 3d acceleration. The distortion appears on the bottom of the desktop. The top of my screen is reappearing over the bottom 2 or 3 inches of the screen. The computer remains usable but some programs are affected more than others by this phenomenon. Obviously I would like the distortion to go away. I haven't seen this issue using the livna drivers with other Fedora boxes but those have different video cards than this one. My video card is an ATI Radeon X1800 256MB. Is there some modification that can be made to xorg.conf that will fix this? Has anyone seen this problem? can anyone point me to a solution? I am in the process of researching a solution using google, bugzilla, and this list. Any and all responses welcome.