Comments on: ATI Driver 8.8.25

By: sinister13

sinister13 — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:42:19 +0000

I stil have no GL_ARB_point_sprite extension on RADEON 9000 at my work. I wonder, if it present on other ATI cards and will it ever be implemented on 9000? Happily, I have no such problems with my Geforce FX 5600 at home :-)

By: Michael_S

Michael_S — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:09:33 +0000

I’m getting errors while trying to install. Could
someone help me please. I’m eager to play X-plane.
Many thanks regards
Michael

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Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:48:54 +0000

Sweeeeeeeeet! I just installed the debian packages of these and ran the fglrxconfig and now I have my auto dual screen detection and gl acceleration working perfectly.

With nvidia I could never get it to autodetect whenever I was in 1 screen or 2 screen mode so I had to constantly change the symlink to a different XFConfig-4 file when going from work to home and back.

ATI deserves a big round of thanks for this one. Their configuration tool is actually easier and more powerful then NVidias and the graphics acceleration (at least with the screensaver gl programs) about 20% faster (with the rating for this being the frames per second as reported by the screensaver).

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Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:06:19 +0000

Install Nvidia!
Problems solved. :)

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Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:53:45 +0000

I have the new drivers running with a Radeon 9700 on my gentoo box now. I swapped out my old nvidia gforce 2 mx to try it.

The install was a awkward, much fiddling with xorg.conf was required.

Doom3 demo works ok, though the graphics look a bit weird, with some faces half bright white. Oddly enough I’m sure the nvidia card looked better, though it ran a hell of a lot slower.

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Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:48:39 +0000

Is there any performance gain from open-source DRI driver?

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Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:42:58 +0000

Does it work now? ;)

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Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:07:41 +0000

When I restart X.org, the screen freezes and I can only reboot my computer (keyboard and ssh and all that still works)…

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Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:22:50 +0000

Wahay!
I’ve been waiting ages for these.
Nice one ATI!

By: Flammon

Flammon — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:45:42 +0000

Well now I can run Doom3, good. But 640×680 is still corrupted in every game that I play. In fact, any mode 800×600 or greater works fine. Any mode 640×480 or lower is corrupted and has been ever since I’ve used the ATI binary drivers including the one they just released. Does anyone have a solution of has encountered this before?