New ATI Radeon Drivers Released
October 8th, 2003 by MarvSeveral people have written in to let us know that a new set of ATI Radeon drivers has been released. This driver supports the 8500 to the 9800 series; changes in this release include:
- Driver now builds against Linux kernel 2.6.0-test6
- Fixes for Via KT400 systems
- Fixes for Athlon K7 systems with 2.4.19 and 2.4.20
- Added support for the following graphics cards:
- Improved GLX 1.3 features (pBuffers)
- AGP updates for the following AGP chipsets:
- Added glxATI.h to driver package for Developer Use
- Moved ATI source tarballs to /usr/src/ATI
- RADEON 9200SE
RADEON 9600SE
RADEON 9800LE
RADEON 9800SE
RADEON 9800XT
- intel i865, SiS648/651/746
VIA PLE133/KL266/KM266/P4M266
October 8th, 2003 at 9:51 pm
If they keep this up, perhaps in May next year i will buy an ATI!
October 8th, 2003 at 10:50 pm
I’ve got fewer and fewer reasons to purchase nvidia cards. Now if we can make sure that the all-in-wonder cards have total support I’ll be all set.
October 9th, 2003 at 1:22 am
Its just a driver release, lets see how they stack up to nvidia’s drivers in real games…
October 9th, 2003 at 1:46 am
I find buying hardware that offers nativer kernel drivers for hardware to be the best bet.
I’ve always used NVIDIA cards in teh past since NVIDIA is the only decent video card for linux that offers linux drivers.
However, I just *love* having native linux drivers or opensource drivers as bugs are fixed much more readily and things just *seems* to work much better.
I think most businesses and home users *will* opt for h/w that offers such driver modules.
Cheers to ATI. I’m fascinated with this ATI opensource driver developement and will keep an ey e on this for future plans of buying an ati card.
October 9th, 2003 at 2:45 am
Even with the texture compression disabled, I get a false agp memory error screen which is frozen. I have to kill the game manually. Time to upgrade I guess.
October 9th, 2003 at 3:50 am
Savage didn’t work the last time i tried.
But with support for 2.6 kernel i got 3d acceleration again.
Hopefully this driver will fix the issue (or some of the numerous updates to savage).
October 9th, 2003 at 5:32 am
OK, my 2.4.22 kernel with AC patches backported doesn’t work at all for some strange reason (kernel crash right after loading kernel….)…
2.6.0-test6 works, but my ATI 9500 card doesn’t work with 3D.
My motherboard (which is the achilles heal) is an
ECS Elitegroup L7VTA with VIA KT400 chipset and VT8235 pci bridge.
Anyone got any luck with KT400 chipsets?
If so, which kernel are you running.
October 9th, 2003 at 5:44 am
Until I get support equivilant to TwinView working with an ATI card, I will stick with NVidia. I previously had a Radeon8500 but got fed up with bad graphics in game (like see through trees in RTCW), and no TV-out option. And no, the open source TV-Out project for ATI cards did NOT work for me.
October 9th, 2003 at 6:16 am
Hello! I just switched to an ATI 9800 from an NVIDIA Ti4200 about 2 weeks ago. I have found (this driver included) that the performance is good enough, but there are occasional glitches. But they seem to have gotten better with this release. It’s looking good so far! The only thing that I am disappointed about so far is if you launch a second X server… well expect to reboot in short order. :(
IBJamon
October 9th, 2003 at 12:08 pm
Is preformance any better with this release?
October 9th, 2003 at 5:30 pm
hum, any chance to get the ati remote control to work in linux someday ?
October 9th, 2003 at 8:22 pm
I get color corrupted video if I switch to a virtual console and then back to X. I have to restart X to get rid of it. Annoying.
October 9th, 2003 at 8:44 pm
RADEON 9200SE
RADEON 9600SE
RADEON 9800LE
RADEON 9800SE
Never heard of these, ive seen the XT, but what are the others?
October 9th, 2003 at 10:02 pm
Does the driver support laptop Radeon cards right now?
October 10th, 2003 at 10:26 am
I would appreciate some feedback from people that have the new driver working. Any gotchas? How’s the performance? I have the 3.2.5 driver working fairly well and I’ll stick with it if there’s no advantages to upgrading.
thanks.
October 10th, 2003 at 6:22 pm
Are there versions for FreeBSD? I have a radeon card that is collecting dust…. :(
October 10th, 2003 at 6:23 pm
Are there versions for FreeBSD? I have a radeon card that is collecting dust…. :(
October 11th, 2003 at 7:32 am
Does anyone have a tv card working with ati drivers? I only get sound and a black windows… with or without v4l and dga enabled. The card is a pctv pro.
October 11th, 2003 at 4:54 pm
Anyone know how these drivers feel about mobile radeon systems?
October 11th, 2003 at 5:56 pm
Is there a PPC version?
October 15th, 2003 at 11:54 pm
It’d be nice if they got Xinerama (or some equivalent) working…
October 18th, 2003 at 5:45 pm
has anybody got test8 with fglrx working ? patched, still get crashes and dmesg debug message of failed attempt at startx ( Call trace ). Screen stays black. Tried with agpgart or without. AGP is via kt400 on agp3 ( x8 ) mode. “test7″ patche, as well as agp3 and amd on. Thank you.
November 29th, 2003 at 12:17 pm
IBJamon mentioned this issue already. It’s a true problem for me, too. Has anyone found a solution for this? I tried to run first X instance with ati fglrx driver and another X with open source radeon driver, but it didn’t help.