On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone else experienced problems with kernel 2.6, X11 and radeon > M7500 graphics card? > when I boot 2.6 everything goes ok until X11 starts, then the screen > just blanks. no errors appear in XF86 log either. > any suggestions would be appreciated.
I don't know the answer to that, but maybe my story will inspire: I have Dell I8200 with Radeon M9000 (R250) and got XFree86 4.3.0 running with kernel 2.6. What I miss is 3D accelaration, and mouse is a bit shaky for the first 10sec of X start. I did not test the suspend (to RAM) yet, but I would not be surprised if it won't recover because of graphical mode. There is a nice patch for ATI cards for XFree86 4.3 (kernel-2.4) concerning the 3D and suspend: http://cpbotha.net/dri_resume.html Without this patch I could not do any proper resume with X on. So overall, I need some more time to investigate kernel-2.6, maybe the patch is applicable for kernel-2.6 too... > on another note: > what sort of frame rates in glxgears would be considered good? > currently I get about 350-450 frames per second (kernel 2.4.24, X11 4.21 > KDE 3.1) I guess you want to know whether the 3D accelaration is on? The proper way to test is: glxgears | grep direct and perhaps install tuxracer - if the game is playable, then you have 3D accelaration :-) > cheers, > > Ben. > Best regards, Marius
