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."

Comments

Re:Finally

[smitten0000]

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.

Re:Finally

[Gregg Alan]

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!