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On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:12:04 +0100, David C. Rankin
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
On my system, 9.1 wouldn't even load. I'm now trying 9.2b, 3D performance seems to be a lot better than 8.12, +70%. The promised (for 9.1 at least) 'flicker free' video playback is, of course, not there... (I have a 3450 that was supposed to go in a media pc, probably bin it and get a nVidia card instead.) Kjartan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org