Joe Blow
@cableone.net
| reply to Eatmeingreek
Re: Is it time to give ATI another look?
said by Eatmeingreek  :Nvidia drivers work for me on AMD64 using Gentoo's 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 kernel. Driver version 169.09-r1. They work for me in Debian, if I run a 64-bit userland too. However, I really need to run a 32-bit userland because of what I use the machine for--it's a testing lab for our production machines so I have to have the same environment. |
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Vampirefo
Premium,MVM
join:2000-12-11
Huntington, WV | reply to Eatmeingreek
ATI drivers work well for me the ones downloaded from ati.com that is.
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Joe Blow
@cableone.net
| said by Vampirefo :ATI drivers work well for me the ones downloaded from ati.com that is. What version of Xorg do you run, and what card? There is a major conflict between the ATI drivers and Xorg 7.3. In my case, apparently, it extends to Xorg 7.1 too because the Xorg log files showed that the glx module wasn't loaded because the version of Xorg couldn't be determined. That's the error I got every time in 7.3 and the performance was so slow in both versions that the computer was unusable for all practical purposes. It as a hair faster with 7.1, but not by much. When you can maximize a window and it moves so slowly you can watch it grow into place the graphics performance is terrible. |
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Joe Blow
@cableone.net | That should read: That's the error I got every time in 7.3 and 7.1, and the performance.... |
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Vampirefo
Premium,MVM
join:2000-12-11
Huntington, WV
 ·Comcast
| reply to Eatmeingreek
[vampirefo@vampirefo ~]$ X -version
X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
Current Operating System: Linux vampirefo 2.6.22.15.tex3 #1 SMP Mon Feb 11 13:27:43 CST 2008 i686
Build Date: 14 February 2008
Before reporting problems, check »wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
ati card 9550
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GunnarDanne
join:2002-12-02
Crown City, OH
| reply to Eatmeingreek
I always used the driver from ATI and it was always a pain to get it to work. And even if I got the driver to work, the control panel or any of that stuff never did. That was with a 9200 and a 9800 pro. I do remember never getting anything to work with certain distros. I think Mandrake was one and Fedora might have been another. Suse worked. Slackware worked. Gentoo maybe, but that was a long time ago. |
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