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On Tuesday 10 October 2006 13:21, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > That's the open source driver, you get 2D acceleration, but not 3D. |
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> > For 3D you need to emerge ati-drivers and use the fglrx driver |
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> actually the open source radeon driver support for 3D is getting |
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> better all the time! |
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> As of x11-base/x11-drm-20060608 there is support for the 9600 (RV350 |
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> based) which there never was before. |
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> In fact, x11-drm gives me FASTER frame rates that fglrx 8.29.6!! |
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> That's right, FASTER! *woot* |
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> anyway, I'm off to try composite :) |
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After today's kernel upgrade to 2.6.17-suspend2-r6 I need some good |
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news, and it looks like this is it :-) |
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I stopped tracking the progress of the radeon driver a long time ago |
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after I got fed up trying to watch full screen movies. The 9200SE in my |
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desktop (R280) ought to work nicely from what you say above. And with |
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luck the notebook video card will be supported as well: |
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lspci: |
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon |
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Mobility M300] |
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If it all works well, then I can finally get composite working in KDE - |
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enabling it turns fglrx into a psychotic super-intelligent shade of the |
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colour blue and it disables dri |
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alan |
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