Loading ATI drivers has always been painful .. if you are currently using an Nvidia card, don't switch to ATI unless you are using it under Windows as well, and even then I would be more apt to stick with Nvidia. I've recently gone throught the whole process to get out FireGL X1's working under SUSE 9.2, however I think I'm using the 8.10 driver. First off make sure GCC and kernel sources are installed. As well you will have to change to run level 3 to install the driver and get acceleration working. Also you will have to use the --force option in rpm to get the ATI driver to overwrite the Mesa GL. Use fglxinfo to see if you are using ATI's drivers or Mesa after running fglrxconfig and restarting X. Also use fgl_glxgears to measure FPS, plain glxgears gives some crazy FPS but is very incorrect. My FPS with an $800 ATI workstation card is ~600, which is trash. What FPS does your current Nvidia card give you? Cheers Todd sargon wrote:
On Monday, 13-June-2005 15:23, Ubence Quevedo wrote:
I've had much success using the nVidia Linux driver because it just works. I've never had any luck using the old ATi linux drivers. Has anyone tested the newer driver? How was the install process? Painful or Painless? I'm debating on getting a new card, but am on the fence on whether to get an nVidia based card or an ATi based card. Any comments or insights would be greatly appreciated!
Tried it. Didn't work on my laptop (Radeon 9600, 128MB video RAM).
Install was much better than previous releases, however. And the driver actually starts, and X loads. But acceleration doesn't work. Ended up reverting back to the Mesa driver.
You might check out the Linux driver forum at www.rage3d.com
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