ATI FirePro V3800 question.

Erik P. Olsen epodata at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 21:55:44 UTC 2011


On 04/04/11 22:19, Vaclav Mocek wrote:
> On 04/03/2011 03:57 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> On 02/04/11 23:32, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 22:17:43 +0200,
>>>      "Erik P. Olsen"<epodata at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>> I've found that on F12 I have mesa-dri-drivers-experimental installed whereas on
>>>> F14 it is "only" mesa-dri-drivers. I've now installed the experimental version
>>>> on F14 and will change graphics cards tomorrow. Maybe this will solve my problem.
>>> Maybe, but I think for F14 experimental was just for Nouveau. In F15 that
>>> subpackage doesn't exist.
>>>
>>>> Is any doc available listing which cards are supported by the two mesa drivers?
>>> I am not sure. It's not just support but also level of support. Some of the
>>> newer cards have kms and not much else in the latest kernel. I am not sure
>>> how much support the rv8xx stuff has right now and back in 2.6.35. I think
>>> that group of chips was called evergreen and you could search for that.
>>> Fedora also may have backported support for those cards. It could also
>>> be a quirkiness of your particular model of card or a driver bug that affects
>>> your card. (For example on my old rv280, I need to disable AGP to get it
>>> to work reliably. I didn't used to have to do that but some bug got introduced
>>> around 2.6.37 that gave me grief.)
>>>
>> As you said, the experimental driver didn't help. Next try will be catalyst.
>>
> I had no success with V3800 and  F14 livecd, the proprietary driver
> works nicely in RHEL 6.0. I like this card, better than stock gaming
> cards (OpenGL, OpenCL).

Catalyst drives this card with F14. Not exactly nicely since I get this "AMD 
unsupported hardware" watermark. But mostly it's nice and fast. Only 
misbehaviour is when I watch video in 16 by 9 format then the area outside the 
format is garbled (my monitor is 4 by 3) but I can live with that.

My only concern is that AMD wont synchronise their driver with fedora so I hope 
mesa-dri-driver will pick up this card soon.

-- 
Erik


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