Per Jessen wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
If your running 11.1 -- you're hosed for now. Maybe the 9-2 driver will be better.
David, what's the problem in 11.1 ? I've recently put 11.1 on a laptop, a Lenovo with Radeon R200 - the ati driver worked fine.
/Per
Per, There are 2 primary issues currently with the ATI driver and 11.1 that are made worse by the fact that the December ATI driver release is the only release that supports xorg 7.4 (i.e. 11.1) so you don't have the option of using an earlier driver. The issues are: (1) Broken 3D Acceleration. (that's a loud period at the end) (2) Performance Sucks. For reasons I cannot explain (only ATI can) driver performance is 40% slower than with the 8-9 driver (September '08). Meaning since September '08, every ATI Linux driver released has suffered the same performance degradation. I don't know if this is only openSuSE specific, or older hardware specific, but I *do* know that on both my laptops with ATI cards (9600 and x1300) the driver performance is terrible *and* not only is it limited to screen performance, whatever the problem is it dramatically affects application startup time for *all* apps. The problem is bad enough on my laptops that if I was running 11.1 and forced with the choice between the radeon driver or fglrx driver, I'd ditch compiz and all the other niceties and run the radeon driver just to recover decent system performance. We've been here before though. All through fall of '07, the fglrx driver was borked, so I know sooner or later (probably later) ATI will get around to taking a look at the Linux driver code and solve the problem. But presently for 11.1 users, you have been thrown back to the dark days of fall '07 waiting on ATI to fix a screwup. -- 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org