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SubjectRe: System hang with ATI's lousy driver
Thanks for responding.

Joel Jaeggli wrote:

>
> kernel drm + xfree86 driver will actually provide accelerated opengl
> support in Xwindows albiet without quite as many hardware features as the
> proprietary driver on all the rv2xx chipsets including the 9000 but not
> on the later models.

Well, maybe I should go back and try to get Mesa to work. I don't need
a lot of acceleration. It's just that when I was using the Mesa driver,
the OpenGL rendering would flash wildly, the colors would be all wrong,
and the Z buffering was totally messed up, messing up the layering of
objects, etc. I didn't have this problem with RH9, but with Gentoo,
it's completely broken. Of course, I probably flubbed a step in the
installation (that seems to be a 'feature' of Gentoo, although I really
like Gentoo).

>
> kernel drm & radeonfb have been reported to not play very well with each
> other in other venues. vesafb is known to work in this situation though.

Maybe that's what I should use. The 2.6 radeonfb doesn't seem to
accelerate scrolling right yet anyhow, so what do I care? :)


THANKS!

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