Hi all you ATI users, Well, I am curious about all those using the ATI 8500 or above cards here. Since ATI has now released their own binary drivers for those cards, how are they working for you? I know we have several users here with some of those, 8500, 9000, 9700, etc. Also, what about those people with the "powered by ATI" cards? Are the drivers fixed now to work those as well? Thought I read something from ATI that mentioned having fixed the drivers to take care of all the cards. Thanks for anyone's input as I am sure others here might like to know as well. Also, I have heard that the new ATI drivers allow the previously unplayable games to work nicely? --Patrick --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 lördagen den 14 december 2002 15.30 skrev PL O'Smith:
Hi all you ATI users,
Well, I am curious about all those using the ATI 8500 or above cards here. Since ATI has now released their own binary drivers for those cards, how are they working for you? I know we have several users here with some of those, 8500, 9000, 9700, etc. Also, what about those people with the "powered by ATI" cards? Are the drivers fixed now to work those as well? Thought I read something from ATI that mentioned having fixed the drivers to take care of all the cards.
Thanks for anyone's input as I am sure others here might like to know as well. Also, I have heard that the new ATI drivers allow the previously unplayable games to work nicely?
I'm using the latest driver on a 8500 "powered by". It works fine and, this may be stricktly subjective, the display seems more crisp and sharp. Haven't tried any games. Olle -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9+07hemTnENN6pasRAgjNAJ9BBtkOE9hDSkavfSFd8kVb4Qdt9QCfYPle 1HGfVJBwg2CSr3rQPBjU6Ho= =8rdu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Saturday 14 December 2002 6:30 am, PL O'Smith wrote:
Hi all you ATI users,
Well, I am curious about all those using the ATI 8500 or above cards here. Since ATI has now released their own binary drivers for those cards, how are they working for you?
I have a "powered by" 9000 card [this list and slashdot helped "convince" ATI to remove the specific check for "built by"] positives: it does appear to install and run negatives: installation is "tricky" first bootup is fine [framebuffer animations], but shutting down/switching to a "virtual" [framebuffer] console comes up with fragged video [multiple overlapped images...] tuxracer crashed [hard] shortly after starting -- by "hard crash" I'm talking frozen mouse, no keyboard response [didn't think to try and telnet/ssh in from another system] someone else reported similar problems, I haven't re-tried since OTOH: I did try the commercial xi-graphics driver [the "trial" version runs for 25 minutes then soft-crashes the X server -- if you were "doing something, 'oh well...'"] and I'm not sure I "cleanly" uninstalled it -- there may be some interaction between the remnants of that commercial server and the new one from ATI...
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