Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:46:33 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: System hang with ATI's lousy driver |
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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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