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Re: New ATI driver
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Italy
2007-09-13 16:39:56
Well, support on <R600 is "unofficial", but on
Phoronix they claim that 
it works without problems.
On my laptop with an Xpress 1150, it's plain crap. It killed
rhgb, but 
while X.org seems to load fine, and glxinfo reports working
direct 
rendering, every application trying to use OpenGL segfaults.
Even 
fgl_glxinfo, their own test program. Plus, there's very
annoying 
graphical corruption around the mouse cursor. And not to
mention, 
suspend/hibernate don't work.
This is on x86_64, I don't know if the situation is
different on i386...
I wonder if AMD will ever manage to provide a working driver
for F7 
x86_64... Good that they're releasing their specs, their
driver is just 
shameful.

Dario

Matthias Saou ha scritto:
> Mike Chambers wrote :
>
>   
>> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:00 +0200, Matthias Saou
wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Here you go 
>>>
>>> http://ftp.es6.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fed
ora/linux/testing/7/
>>>
>>> I don't have any hardware to test it, so feel
free to post some
>>> feedback!
>>>       
>> This version doesn't work with F8 does it?  I
believe due to xorg-7.3?
>> As I have an ATI X1300 card and it didn't seem to
work.
>>     
>
> From what I read, this driver only supports R600 chips,
and your card
> would be an R500, unfortunately. See :
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_
of_ATI_Graphics_Processing_Units
> http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-rade
onhdd.html
>
> Matthias
>
>   

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