On Friday 09 December 2005 00:43, William H Lugg wrote:
OK, here's what I did. I went to ATI's web site and downloaded the file ati-driver-installer-8.20.8-x86_64.run. I followed the instructions on the Installation Instructions page using the Automatic option.
I then ran the fglrxconfig file that the instructions pointed to, answered the questions and restarted the machine. Everthing seems to be working.
I'm getting frame rates upwards of 2500 FPS and glxinfo indicates that Direct Rendering is set to yes. However, 3dinfo returns nothing. Further sax2 -r displays the dialog showing the card as I described earlier, but the checkbox at the bottom of the dialog is disabled and not checked.
So, I seem to be getting the performance improvement you suggested I'd see, but there still seems to be something strange going on with 3D support.
Any thoughts?
Thanks. -- Bill Lugg ======
Sounds like you got it going Bill. The instructions from the ATI site seem to be the one's to follow in getting things working good. Your resulting frame rates are very good for 3D. I forgot what card you have, 9250 or? Once you use ATI's configuration program, fglrxconfig, pretty much forget about sax2 as it will possibly only mess things up as they are set. Remember too, should you install or update the kernel, you'll have to go thru the install again, just as the nVidia users do, because it removes the ATI modules you just installed. Enjoy your 3D now. I think you'll be pleased with the results you get for graphics now. regards, Lee