John Andersen said the following on 09/22/2010 12:41 PM:
On 9/22/2010 4:25 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
The raedon driver does work for many of us, myself included, so this has to be one of those "devil in the details" of your configuration, and unless they are sorted out the enhancements that Will Stephenson talks of will not be available to you.
It sort of works.
I disagree; for me and presario laptop it works just fine.
But its dog slow.
Compared to what? A dedicated, tuned MS-Windows gaming machine? As a screen mechanism it is 'instantaneous' to the eye on all the compiz & 'dancing babies' things I have set up.
Google earth is barely usable.
I disagree. Its quite snappy. Not just the 'photos' put the zoom and pan.
Gaming is out.
No doubt that will depend on the game, and I'm not into a lot of the highly animated games, but the response I get from the movies clips and from google earth make me wonder ...
And the ATI distributed driver packages no longer install.
I can't comment on that, I gave up with those awkward things long ago. There seemed to be little benefit for the hassle involved.
The lower numbered Mobility Radeon chipsets are pretty much dependent on Mesa, and its pathetic.
Since I don't run Mesa and since I don't know what you mean by 'lower numbered', my only observation is that I do run the 'radeon' driver and this is an older chip-set so may well be 'lower numbered'. If that all adds up, the once again I disagree with you, not based on theory but rather that "it works for me". Perhaps we need some metrics. I'm not sure glxgears is useful: I just ran it and got figures from 325 to 555. Too much variability; but then this laptop is running lots of other stuff - cron, samba, mail, akonadi, mysql, a couple of web browsers ... -- IOException: Jovian moons misaligned. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org