Yep.. Gotta disagree. I've got three machines including a laptop with ATI. All work quite nicely in 3d. Don't know what I did, but they work. This one has a 4670 and is great.
Are you using the radeon driver or the fglrx driver? When you say 3D is working nicely are you referring to... compiz? or say... gaming... or MythTV (which is horrible on my ATI card)? fglrx. On all three. But two are older machines and I never updated
On Saturday 23 May 2009, Clayton wrote: them. This one has the 4670 which is relatively new and supported. I have run compiz on it. I don't do games, nor any sort of TV on it. I do watch movies and all play fine.
I have set up about a dozen systems with ATI, and for window manager/desktop, they worked... but then again, an Intel950G works too. As soon as I tried to run MythTV, or anything that was OpenGL...then the problems started. Knock on wood, but I haven't had any trouble with them so far.
Oh, another issue with ATI.. they drop all support for cards that are not very old. Each driver release seems to strip off yet another card. If you've got a very recent card, you are OK with driver support, but a card that is only a couple years old will likely be EOL as far as the driver is concerned... this was discussed recently on the mailing list too.
Now that's I'll agree with. That's the reason I haven't updated the other two machines. One is an older AGP card that I know support for has dropped. Hopefully the Open sourse RadeonHD drive will eventually give some sort of support for the older cards. Until then I'll leave them alone. They work. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 11.0 Kernel 2.6.25 KDE 3.5 Kmail 1.9 9:07pm up 23:40, 3 users, load average: 2.22, 2.23, 2.17 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org