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On 8/4/06, fire-eyes <sgtphou@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Does anyone know what the heck is going on here? I mean this is TOTALLY |
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> unacceptable. I know it is not gentoos fault, it's ATI putting out crap |
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> drivers... But this is SO FRUSTRATING not having reliable 3D :( |
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Yeah, one of my main requirements for my new laptop was an Intel or |
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Nvidia GPU, because I got sick and tired of ATIs shit. NVidia is |
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better, but still not perfect. We can only hope that AMDs purchase of |
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ATI will result in some better cooperation with the opensource |
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community...eventually. |
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For now, the only other option you have for 3D support is to try out |
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the reverse-engineered r300 driver. If you have a recent enough |
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kernel, you can turn on "Device Drivers->Character Devices->Direct |
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Rendering Manager" and "ATI Radeon". Then using the radeon driver and |
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standard DRI setup, you might get hardware 3D acceleration. |
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I have never used it, so I can't say how well the reverse-engineered |
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driver works. I do know it is still very much a work in progress |
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though, the more recent the kernel, the better. You might also have a |
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look at the table in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h and |
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compare to your vendor and device id (from lspci -n output), to see if |
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your chip is supported by the in-kernel driver before going through |
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the trouble. |
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> What can I do? I have struggled in the past very hard with getting DRI to work |
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> in xorgs radeon driver, but it takes cvs versions of this and overlays of |
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Most of that should now be resolved with recent kernels and x.org versions.... |
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> that and blah blah blah... A real pain.... I should be able to get 3D going |
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> here, preferrably without ATI's drivers, i mean this card has been out for a |
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> while.... What do I do? So frustrating...... |
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The problem is that ATI doesn't release programming specs either. So |
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it is not simply a matter of time before something works...that only |
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applies if the company will at least work with the interested devs. |
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ATI has demonstrated very little interest in providing decent linux |
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support. If you have a choice, don't buy them. Again, we can only |
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hope that the purchase by AMD goes through and changes the culture, |
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but don't hold your breath. |
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-Richard |
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