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