BandiPat wrote:
On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote:
Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Jim Flanagan wrote:
Which one should I install??
Neither one.
Eberhard
=========== That's not really true Eberhard. The 8.28.8 version supports his card and xorg 7.2. They just never changed their listing above 7.1, but it did support it. The later drivers, as Jim points out, support only 8500 and up cards, so his 9000 should have no problems. I'm guessing the newer drivers also support up to & beyond xorg 7.2, so that also should provide him his needed support. Since AMD has decided to opensource their drivers, plus all the additional work they've poured into them lately, I suspect nvidia is going to have a hard time keeping up, unless you want to be tied to proprietary drivers. That's not what Linux is about.
Now having said that, Jim, you are probably going to get only minor improvements by using the ATI driver on that card. It's well supported with the radeon/ati driver built into xorg already. I haven't used the ATI driver for a very long time on either my 9200 or 9600 cards. 3D performance is quite good. So, Jim, you decide what you want to deal with on your setup, but you should be good either way.
regards, Lee
Just to report back, in my case after finally getting sax2 to work on my system I did get the radeon driver to work with my radeon 9000 card in 3D mode. Glxgears showed about 1600 fps or so, similar to what I got with 10.2. Operating under the beleif that the ATI drivers would not work with this card, I switched it out for my radeon 9800 pro that I never got working under 10.2. Much to my surprise the radeon driver did work with 10.3, even in 3D (never did in 10.2). Its giving about 3600-3800 fps range. Bolstered by that success I then installed the ATI driver with the one click method (version 8.40.4 not 8.41.7 which opensuse reported to be buggy) and this worked also, the first time I ever go an ATI driver to work in this machine. But I find no real benefit to this driver over the radeon driver, it gives the same 3600-3800 fps or so as the radeon driver does, so my results match what Lee said in this regard. Maybe there is a difference in running compiz-fusion, but I haven't gotten to trying that yet. In any case both driver do work with this card. Unfortunately google earth doesn't display properly with either driver on this 9800 pro card. I have my suspicions that there is something wrong with this card due to past problems with it, but it seems to be running everything else well. Sorry for switching gears, or rather cards, in mid stream here, but I had to try out this supposedly better card. It's not working fully yet, but its the best results I've gotten with it so far. I will probably test out the ATI drivers on the 9000 too when I get a chance, since I seem to be in "testing mode" lately. I haven't moved my main install from 10.2 yet, so I can still comfortably test my 10.3 install to check out all the corners so to speak without too much worry of breakage. Once I settle on the best setup I'll probably move fully to 10.3. I see today on opensuse.org/ati they have the newer 8.42.3 ATI driver listed under the one click install, but I have not tried that one yet. Keep the faith! Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org