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ATI Releases Drivers For X.Org

Posted by timothy on from the making-things-pretty dept.

Amadaeus writes "ATI released its much anticipated drivers for the X.Org 6.8 Window System today. ATI actually went one step further and updated its driver set for XFree86 as well. Those who had to hack and slash their way through the Fedora Core 3 install only to realize that VESA was the only way to get it working in init 5 will find this highly useful."

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  1. COMPOSITE and DAMAGE by Gregg+Alan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The new drivers work with x.org, yes. But so did the old drivers. I expected this new x.org approved version to give me accelerated transparency and dropshadows but it doesn't.

    If you load the COMPOSITE extension you lose DRI and XDAMAGE just seems to not be supported.

    So, like, don't go rush to upgrade if that's what you wanted. The 3D acceleration is at least as good as the old version but I wanted eye candy.

    (Though, if you know how to get it all working, please share!)

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  2. Re:Finally by smitten0000 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Status of what I've tried so far:
    * Used the posted ebuild (from rage forums) to compile/install the driver
    * changed "Keyboard" to "kbd" in config file
    * ran "opengl-update ati"
    * Detects the card correctly:
    (--) Chipset RADEON 9800 XT (R360 4E4A) found
    * Attempted to get working with InternalAGPGart "yes" - No luck here,
    the desktop will come up, but machine will hard lock after a few seconds
    or when trying to drag a window. Made that the chipset specific AGP
    module (intel-agp.ko in my case) was NOT loaded via lsmod; also moved
    the module to a different location so it would not autoload.
    * Recompiled kernel with chipset specific AGP module compiled in - No luck
    here either. Desktop comes up and fglrxinfo reports DRI enabled and
    opengl implentation to be ATI's. Running glxgears hard locks the machine
    again. Nothing in the Xorg.0.log files.

    I have an ASUS P5B533-E and P4 2.4/533 with Radeon 9800XT, Running Gentoo Linux 2.6.10. I have officially given up on ever getting this card to work in linux. Anyone want to buy a Radeon 9800XT?

    ATI claims to be developing a new driver every two months, but considering this release was a month late and doesn't improve on the old drivers from what I've been hearing, I frankly don't believe them. Another thing, considering they are touting Xorg 6.8 support, how could they possibly forget to update the fglrxconfig program to produce a working config for it!?! Sure it will work with XFree86, but how hard is it to check whether the user has xfree or xorg (or ask) and change the keyboard driver and output filename approriately? Jesus.

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  3. other hardware platforms by chaoschimera · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ATI has made some nice graphics chipsets for the PowerPC platform as well. I love the Radeon Mobility in my Powerbook, but my installation of Debian Sarge on another partition would *love* to have some 3d acceleration and support for the nice S-video and DVI outputs. When will they get around to Linux drivers for non-x86 platforms is what I'd like to know.

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    1. Re:other hardware platforms by Basje · · Score: 2, Interesting

      These are OEM chipsets. In other words, only supported by ATI through the vendor.

      So, in this case, go ask Apple if they will ask ATI. Fat chance.

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