On Sunday 02 November 2003 03:57, Vitaly Shishakov wrote:
I tried to use ATI drivers with my Radeon 9200SE and that experience was awfull.
I can sympathise there. I've never been able to get hardware-accelerated 3D working on my 9700 Pro with 8.1 or 9.0. (With 9.0, you get "Error: XFree86 drm includes at /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-athlon/build/ include/../drivers/char/drm do not fit this driver. This driver is designed to only work with X4.1.0 or higher. You can match this by getting Linux kernel 2.4.8 or higher." I haven't had the time to start poking around in /usr/src/linux/ drivers/char/drm/radeon_drm.h yet.)
when running fglrxconfig -- it completely destroyed my XF86Config -- my system became completely unusable, and i had to merge what i had in my backup XF86Config copy with what that freaking utility suggested. (for example -- it does not honor keyboard settings at all!)
I find this odd. I tried installing the module, as per instructions, and it duly ate X; so I switched back to the saved backup xf86config (using the radeon driver) and it worked without a problem.
second -- i did not find anywhere any description for the frglx module options!
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/readme0328.txt is the best/only detailed document I've been able to find.
And besides: they do not support XV tuxracer does not run (though some other OpenGL applications did) and the last: they always complained about wrong allocation of MTRR or something, and finally it resulted in corrupting my filesystem! (i think that happened when i desided to try to use their built-in agpgart)
Not good. Have you told http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/ index.asp ?
So, i switched back to "radeon" driver that was with SuSE 9.0 distribution at least it is much more stable and faster in 2D and video operations!
I've gotten fglrx to work with 2D in 9.0; it typically gives me 3x the framerate when software-rendering glxgears that the 'radeon' driver does. Due to being busy at work I'm currently waiting for those nice SuSE people to ... hang on, I see ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ XFree86/ATI/suse90/fglrx has been added since I was last looking. Scrub what I was going to say *g* best wishes, Gideon.