On 06/23/2010 11:47 PM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 09:08:02 Daniel Troeder wrote: >> On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable >>> ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile. >>> >>> >>> Any recommendations as to open source drivers or getting ati-drivers >>> happy with 9.x or 10.x is most welcome. I read a lot of bugs but >>> not much clear on how to proceed.... >>> >>> >>> James >> >> x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.6 >> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.6 >> x11-drivers/ati-drivers-10.6 >> >> both drivers work well. to install both you have to make drm a module >> and not load radeon with kms. switching is possible if you shutdown X >> but might require a reboot (it doesn't, but you lack hw-accel. if you >> don't). > > Hmm interesting! How do the ati drivers perform Vs xorg? > ATI: 3D is very good - a must for gaming, 2D is SLOW! (thou they did something about that with 10.6 - experience differs for users - its said that window management is fast now, but video still has tearing effect [also my exp.]) Latest driver (10.6) work with xorg-server-1.7.x only and kernel module has problems with >=2.6.34 (exp. differ).
Xorg: 3D is basic and very slow but works (the newer the driver/server the better, development is VERY fast), 2D is a dream (very fast, no tearing with video)! Driver is released with Xorg - so work always with newest Xorg, kernel module is in-kernel - work always with newest kernel :) Driver supports both KMS and user space MS. Bye, Daniel -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887&op=get # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887
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