r300 driver stability

[Andras Simon]

On 5/31/07, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> > If it only affected high resolution monitors, I could live with it,
> > since I'm not likely to go above 1280x1024 in the foreseeable future.
> > But I've just found a message of yours in this list from last August,
> > stating
>
> All the reports in the associated bugzilla seem to indicate it is
> high res widescreen monitors only (and maybe only DVI output) that
> have the problem. 1280x1024 should be fine. And of course, many
> people have no problem even with high-res monitors, seems to be
> a somewhat random problem.

Great!

>
> > | On x86_64, I have never yet seen DRI working correctly in the open
> source
> > | radeon driver, so basically there is no ATI 3D on x86_64. The fglrx
> driver
> > | worked for a while, but the most recent ones hard hang the system
> whenever
> > | I exit the X server, so that's not much funn.
> >
> > I don't care much about the fglrx driver, but if the open source
> > driver doesn't work on  x86_64, then I may be better off with a very
> > low end NVidia card, occasionally trying out noveau or NV's driver but
> > generally not putting much hope into 3D.
>
> That was a while back, the open source driver works fine these days,
> especially on fedora 7 where I tried out the test4 release.

I'll give it a try then. Since I'm definitely going for a low end
card, it's not a terribly big risk after all.

Thanks,

Andras