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[opensuse-factory] Does Reality Still Say -- No fglrx for pre-2400 Series Cards in 11.2?
- From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:07:05 -0500
- Message-id: <200909222107.05369.drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Factory,
I haven't heard anything since the discussion in June concerning any
hope of
having a fglrx driver in 11.2 for pre-2400 Series ATI cards. The discussion
left off with the reality that there probably would be no fglrx driver for
pre-2400 cards.
If this is the case, then any one running the pre-2400 series card will
be
unable to enable compositing, or will have compositing spontaneously shut down
when running the radeon driver. The radeonhd driver is somewhat better for
1200-2400 Series users as compositing can be sustained for all but cube
rotation, but with very poor performance and occasional shutdowns. X1600+
cards should be fine with the radeonhd driver, but X1300 and lower card users
(most laptop users) will experience problems.
The fglrx driver offers a 600% performance increase over the radeon or
radeonhd driver and is fantastic with the older cards. I can't recall the
exact details, but IIRC, fglrx driver support only extended to xorg 7.4 with
the 8-10, through 9-3 drivers packages (in reality that means 9-3 because most
of the 8-10 to 9-2 releases were so broken they caused many laptops to reboot
on kdm start). So unless someone has made progress on either patching
libraries to work with the older fglrx driver or gotten some kind of
concession from AMD to release a legacy driver capable of supporting the xorg
that come with 11.2 (1.6 I guess), there are going to be some
surprised/disappointed kde4 users.
If the reality is that there will be no driver, then SuSE should drop a
release note (somewhere??) about the potential compositing problems that have
been experienced and are not unexpected for users moving from the fglrx driver
to either the radeon or radeonhd driver. I think it should probably go in
something like the README-KDE4.SuSE. I don't think anybody would ever think to
look for kde4 issues in the driver README's themselves.
If anybody has any good news on this front, please let us know.
P.S., I guess it was time for a new nvidia gfxcard based laptop anyway ;-)
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
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I haven't heard anything since the discussion in June concerning any
hope of
having a fglrx driver in 11.2 for pre-2400 Series ATI cards. The discussion
left off with the reality that there probably would be no fglrx driver for
pre-2400 cards.
If this is the case, then any one running the pre-2400 series card will
be
unable to enable compositing, or will have compositing spontaneously shut down
when running the radeon driver. The radeonhd driver is somewhat better for
1200-2400 Series users as compositing can be sustained for all but cube
rotation, but with very poor performance and occasional shutdowns. X1600+
cards should be fine with the radeonhd driver, but X1300 and lower card users
(most laptop users) will experience problems.
The fglrx driver offers a 600% performance increase over the radeon or
radeonhd driver and is fantastic with the older cards. I can't recall the
exact details, but IIRC, fglrx driver support only extended to xorg 7.4 with
the 8-10, through 9-3 drivers packages (in reality that means 9-3 because most
of the 8-10 to 9-2 releases were so broken they caused many laptops to reboot
on kdm start). So unless someone has made progress on either patching
libraries to work with the older fglrx driver or gotten some kind of
concession from AMD to release a legacy driver capable of supporting the xorg
that come with 11.2 (1.6 I guess), there are going to be some
surprised/disappointed kde4 users.
If the reality is that there will be no driver, then SuSE should drop a
release note (somewhere??) about the potential compositing problems that have
been experienced and are not unexpected for users moving from the fglrx driver
to either the radeon or radeonhd driver. I think it should probably go in
something like the README-KDE4.SuSE. I don't think anybody would ever think to
look for kde4 issues in the driver README's themselves.
If anybody has any good news on this front, please let us know.
P.S., I guess it was time for a new nvidia gfxcard based laptop anyway ;-)
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
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