New ATI driver 3.12 and xorg 6.8.0
ByteEnable
ByteEnable at austin.rr.com
Sat Sep 11 16:19:08 UTC 2004
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 05:21:03AM -0500, ByteEnable wrote:
>
>>I have built/installed both a Fedora 6.8.0 rpm and from the src
>>tarball's. I cannot get 3D to work with the ATI 3.12 driver released
>>yesterday.
>>
>>Another observation, 6.8.0 is friggin slooooowwwwwwwwwww.
>
>
> It works for me with the open source radeon drivers including 3D and
> its fast. If you turn on all the new composite stuff its slow at the
> moment but thats to be expected 6.8 delivers the feature but doesn't
> deliver fancy acceleration for it.
>
>
I've tried the drivers that came with 6.8. (Radeon) and I get screen
artifacts to the point that its not useable (the artifacts accumulate).
Even when I alt-F1 to text mode. This is on Radeon Mobility 9000.
Byte
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