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ATI Releases Drivers For X.Org
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."
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!)
Here before all but 8486 of you.
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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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.
And considering that the x.org version is a different download file, they could have easily modified that one to do the right thing. And is it really easier to provide rpms without providing tgzs? Bah!
Here before all but 8486 of you.
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.
#!/bin/bash
Not everybody wants to bother with compiling drivers, dude. For some, it's simpler just to have binaries they can install. Not everybody wants to sit through a driver compile just to get the video card working.
One man's selflessness is another man's annoyance.
Those that are going to try using this should read the Rage3D Linux Drivers Forum.
Some of the material there is pretty much required reading to get this stuff working, and includes posts with patches from ATI developers to make the driver work with the latest kernels (2.6.10, etc).
VESA was the only way to get it working? What are you talking about? I downloaded and compiled Xorg 6.8.1 and there were three (ati, radeon, and something else) ATi drivers to choose from depending on your graphics card. OK the performance wasn't brilliant but it worked and the system seemed fairly stable (3 days uptime without an X crash or major bug).
Stick Men
Add the following to xorg.conf (Device section):
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Works fine for my GFORCE2, i get composite AND GLX at the same time, works like a charm.
This doesn't work for Ati's tho.