On Tuesday 24 October 2006 01:58, ellotheth rimmwen wrote:
> On 10/20/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1) i don't understand if these opensource drivers
are actually in the
> > Xorg tree or i have to use an external CVS
repository (from
> > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20061009-newsletter.x
ml it seems
> > they are in the stable tree);
It depends what you want - the stable code doesn''t support
3D accel on 9500
and newer Radeon GPUs. If you're "brave", you can
build the DRI from CVS, to
get the 3D acceleration. Follow the Howto in the forums
here:
http
://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-374745.html
> Newer-model ATI cards are stuck with fglrx and XGL.
No, they're not. I gave up on the ATI drivers months ago,
and have been using
the DRI from CVS with few problems. I have a Mobility 9700
running in an
AMD64 notebook. fglrx was always a problem.
The downside is that the open driver is not as fast as
fglrx. But it's FB
friendly, and I can run a current kernel, without fighting
with a chronically
broken installer.
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