Re: System hang with ATI's lousy driver
From: Timothy Miller
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 17:13:39 EST
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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