Hello all,
I've gotten my portable system updated, excepted for the ati-drivers.
I need somebody to explain a few things to me about the ATI-drivers.
BACKGROUND:
On my portable I have this chipset:
ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000], on a portable.
emerge -s ati-drivers shows:
media-video/ati-drivers
Latest version available: 8.12.10
Latest version installed: 8.12.10
<snip>
media-video/ati-drivers-extra
Latest version available: 8.8.25
Latest version installed: 8.8.25
OK, so the upgradde form 8.8.xxx to 8.12.10 has occurred. At the
end of the upgrade this message is echoed to the screen:
* To switch to ATI OpenGL, run "opengl-update ati"
* To change your XF86Config you can use the bundled "fglrxconfig"
* ***
* If you are experiencing problems with memory allocation try to add
* this line to in your X11 configuration file:
* Option "KernelModuleParm" "agplock=0"
* That should solve the hangups you could have with Neverwinter Nights
* ***
So here are the questions:
1. Should I switch to ATI OpenGL ? If not what do I loose? Why?
2. OK if I follow the instructions and switch, are there any
snafu's or is this beta code that's going to cook something
on the portable?
3. Is this just another Open Source versus Vendor Closed source
binaries pissing_contest or is the ATI OpenGL really
beneficial in means of performance/features?
4. Can I just 'emerge unmerge ati-drivers' and live happily
without ati-drivers on my portable ? (I do not remember
installing ati-drivers, but hey, I don't remember lots
of things).
Any words of wisdom are much appreciated!
James
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