Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xorg (22 mails)

[Lawrence Bowie <thesource@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So, it does NOT work with SuSE 9.2/XOrg yet? It is just
a bug fix update?

Thanks,

LDB


r.maurizzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>  
>
> > Does the new ATI driver work with SuSE92/Xorg
> > (DRI support, switching between console & X,
> > Xvideo overlay etc)?
> >    
>
> > From the readme on ATI site, the "new features" of this drivers are only
> "support for all existing ATI PCIe cards".
> The "issues resolved" are:
>
> - Doom 3: Random polygons no longer appear throughout the display while
> playing the game
> - 3D Applications no longer fail to respond on RHEL 3.0 with 1GB or more
> memory installed
> - The System no longer fails to respond when moving the mouse around on the
> screen on some systems
>
> I wonder if the first fixes the problems I was having in almost all 3D apps
> with textures (e.g. Celestia).
> I won't know either, because for now my 9600 is in a AMD64 system :-/
> that's still unsupported AFAIK, and that will get a 9.2 as soon as I can
> buy a box.
>
> I did read on a web news site that ATI hired 2 X developers and was about
> to release a completely new driver.
> I hope it's true. Meanwhile, I've bought a nVidia :-P
>
>
> Ciao,
>  Roberto
>