On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:20:21 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: (...)
>> Oh, I didn't know. The nvidia counterpart tool is very nice, maybe I >> overestimate the ATI one :-) > OTOH, the ATI driver supports xrandr 1.2 perfectly (as far as I can > tell), so I can use the common open-source configuration tools ;-) . > IMHO, that's better than a well-working vendor-provided tool (from all I > read, NVidia barely supports xrandr). (...) And who needs xrandr if you can have the layout you want in a straightforward way by directly editing the xorg.conf file or by using nvidia-settings tool? (we are now in a loop ;-P) >> May I ask why not using the open source driver (radeon)? For non >> intensive 3D tasks should be just fine, in fact nowadays I'd say is the >> best shaped VGA open source driver available. > I'd like to run some Windows (DX9) games in wine, which works fine with > fglrx, but last time I tried did not work at all using the open-source > driver. Even simple games like Neverball or Supertux did not work. So, > no go here :( Uh? That's strange. Maybe you had a problem for getting the radeon 3D acceleration features enabled... did you review this list of supported games/cards on wine/native environment? http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonProgram Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.08.19.19.46...@gmail.com
