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On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:35:18 -0700 |
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Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:55 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> >> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:31:09 -0400 |
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> >> Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>> if the driver blows dead goats and the vendor isnt willing to help |
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> >>> and no Gentoo dev wants to touch it, what other solution is |
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> >>> there ? |
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> >> There's an open-source driver for the r5xx stuff called the avivo |
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> >> driver [1]. |
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> >> |
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> >> 1. |
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> >> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=avivo/xf86-video-avivo.git;a=summary |
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> > Still leaves a gap, since the open source radeon driver is not fully |
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> > supporting R3xx to my knowledge much less r4xx. |
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> Update your knowledge, the normal radeon driver works nice for both. |
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> =) |
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I'm not sure I would 100% agree with that. Yeah, it works for most |
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things, but 2D definitely could use some speed improvements (still no |
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Render acceleration), and any recent 3d app that needs some serious |
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horsepower (e.g. doom3) is pretty much useless. In fact, last time I |
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tried to start doom3 using the open source driver, it flat out refused |
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to start. Things like ut2003 and ut2004 are also pretty much unplayable. |
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I will say that this is still a better situation than the closed |
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drivers, which instantly hard lock my computer the first time I exit X |
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after the initial startup. |
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-Steve |
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