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Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> Andrey Falko wrote: |
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>> On 11/20/08, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>>> As it happens, upgrading to kernel 2.6.27 was not the only change; I |
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>>> switched from xf86-video-radeonhd to the proprietary ATI Catalyst |
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>>> drivers. |
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>>> Didn't think that this has anything to do with it though. |
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>> I have a hunch that this is the problem. Have you tried 2.6.27 without |
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>> the |
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>> proprietary ATI drivers? This is the first thing I would suspect |
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>> because ATI |
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>> drivers are not reputed --- or so I believe --- for being the best |
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>> quality |
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>> software out there. Either way, we need to eliminate as many factors as |
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>> possible and one of these factors is your ATI driver change. I don't know |
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>> much about Prime95, but if it won't simulate a subtlety in your video |
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>> drivers, especially how proprietary ATI drivers will play with kernel |
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>> 2.6.27. |
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> I would definitely say this is worth looking into - not necessarily |
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> because the ati-drivers are bad software but because they have always |
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> stressed my hardware more than any open source drivers (and yielded |
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> better performance too). |
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I have opened a bug for it, but it got closed immediately because I have |
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no evidence to support it. lol :P |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247860 |
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