Comments on: Official Radeon Driver 2.5.1

By: slade007

slade007 — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 02:03:22 +0000

need help

libGL error : failed to open DRM : operation not permitted
direct rendering : no

wtf?

i can run quake3/urbanterror only in root
this sucks, what the hell do I do?

please mail me if yall got a solution
slade007@otakumail.com

By: pvdbogaard

pvdbogaard — Thu, 09 Jan 2003 13:38:59 +0000

anyone succesfull in creating a dual monitor setup with this driver. fglrx gives me: no Device section error for PCI:1:0:1 although I specified one.

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Sun, 01 Dec 2002 09:59:29 +0000

One way to look at it: No way people who visit this site will click on an MS ad. Hopefully linuxgames is getting paid per ad view, not for click throughs…

Another way to look at it is that the only people NOT blocking popups who view this site are people who are using IE, too stupid to be using anything else…

When I do notice MS ads I usually do end up putting those sites on my permanent block list.

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Sun, 01 Dec 2002 06:19:56 +0000

when I swap my ATI card in (replacing my old Matrox G400) and use these drivers DVD playback is non-existant. Sure it the disks play, but it only displays the left half of the movie. Any ideas out there? Is there something I need to put in the XF86Config file. Everything else displays properly, wolfenstein runs like a dream etc.

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Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:19:57 +0000

Could someone try the new drivers with UT 2003? I’m on the fence between an ATI and Nvidia upgrade and ATI is cheaper

By: tyreth

tyreth — Sat, 30 Nov 2002 05:46:14 +0000

I was a bit worried about these drivers, since everyone said they are poor and pre-beta quality.

However, this was a quick time before an updated version. I think this is good news and hopefully indicates that they will maintain and bring these up to a good quality level quickly. I was worried that the delay would be 30+days between updates.

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Sat, 30 Nov 2002 05:01:34 +0000

are he driver working for a Mobility Radeon 9000?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:16:12 +0000

That sure is great and all, ATI releasing drivers with S3TC support. However, I am mighty po’d that everyone thinks the world revolves around x86. As much as it is I primarily discuss support for the Alpha platform, I am quite shocked that people actually respond stating that there is nothing the company will benefit from by porting to Alpha. Where is your code of honor? As all of the opensource is primarily aimed at being portable, much (7 of 10) of the applications I tried to cross-compile over for the Alpha (64bit) operate verry well. The only pinacle holding back the Alpha is _that_ one missing component that kills support for the other 99% of the software… It isn’t just the Alpha platform where _that_ occurs. Think about those MIPS, Sparc, StrongARM, and PPC computers out there; the majority of opensource software runs on those too. It’s the one idealogy that hurts all end-users: Intelectual Property or laziness, you choose?

Sincerily,

The Alpha Troll

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Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:52:10 +0000

Hey, Anyone done any benchmarks for this with a 9700 yet? Also, are all features of this card (shaders, etc…) supported, or is Nvidia still the only way to go for now?

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Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:00:32 +0000

I know this is off topic but this page looks like shit now with the new layout. I am hardly able to find things here. My visits got down from once 3-5 visits per day to 1 visit per 2-3 days!