Alex Schuster wrote: > direct rendering: Yes >
Great! > I thought OpenGL support were better? And there is power saving. Although I > have an onboard card, so I would not have a loud spinning fan. Well, the drivers I use (ati-drivers-8.552-r2) are working "perfectly" (in combination with my current kernel, gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9) for all the applications that I have installed/use on my machine. Stability is an issue for me and until the open source driver has matured I will stay with this. I have no need for opengl 3+ currently as no applications that I have installed support it. > Thanks! But you motivated me to give the new drivers a try. Ah, well, that's something at least... :-) > Okay, I just did it. Emerged ati-drivers 9.7. Got a locked display, but > after a reboot, all is fine. Wow! Maybe the problem last time was that I > tried 9.6, or I did not reboot. Whatever. Well, X drivers has some bits that needs to be synchronised: a kernel space glue (DRM module) and the user space X driver. So if you have upgraded you need to kill X, unload the old kernel module and load the new one, start X again. If you didn't know this already... > Thanks again, I needed a little kick. Bitte schön! MfG Peter K
