ati drivers 8.19.10

Lepaca Kliffoth · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:52 am Post subject: ati drivers 8.19.10

Have you tried them? How do we make them work with xorg-server?
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coriolan · Apprentice Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 273

Glad to see that Ati is at least doing something about the Linux drivers. Perhaps next year the Ati cards no longer suck.

Bobbie · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 77

yes the drivers become better and better..and they stick to 1 release / month (3 releases in 3 month) ..so this is encouraging!

I'm sure the quality of NVIDIA's driver has something to do with this...

frenkel · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 1034 Location: .nl

This driver has initial support for suspend/resume!!

Some ppl even reported they have it working

ksenos · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:46 pm Post subject:

Hello there,

I just got a used mobo with an ATI 9200 card on board. So far I was using a old nvidia GF3Ti200, and had no probs with the linux drivers and 3D accellaration. The 'lspci' command contains '0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP'.

Well, I am completely inexperienced with ATI cards and especially with ATI on linux. Is this card supported by the linux ATI drivers included in portage? Thanks a lot in advance

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Lepaca Kliffoth · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject:

Bump! Have all the ati users disappeared or what? I'm still trying to figure out a way to make them work with xorg-server, in the meantime why don't you guys share your experiences?
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forceflow2 · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:09 pm Post subject:

ebuild is out.
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Lepaca Kliffoth · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject:

At the time I posted the ebuild was already there, maybe masked but who cares

The drivers compile cleanly with 2.6.14, I still have to test them.
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GoingDown · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject:

I upgraded today, and yes, seems to work perfectly. Even suspend & resume.

Also, glxgears shows little increase in framerate

Raistlin · l33t Joined: 17 May 2004 Posts: 691 Location: Boston, MA

kewl! I'll then try them, too. The lack of suspend/resume features made me fall somehow into the "who cares" mood. Finally they really become usable!

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bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

I'm still getting distortion. I'm using an X300SE, and I configured my xorg file to only accept resolutions of 1280x1024, but my resolution right now is a distorted 1024x768. By distorted, I mean that everything claims it's 1024x768, but I'm getting about a 1cm black bar on the bottom of the screen and a 2cm bar on the top. I guess I'll have to go back down to 8.14.13 until I get a new video card (which will be in a few years....)

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bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

Well, I fixed my problem, finally. Maybe the newer drivers just weren't compatible with a 2.6.10 kernel, but now that I'm using 2.6.14, it seems to be fine. Well, at least that's comforting now!

dcdead · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 21

I'm getting the following error when emerging the new ati drivers, my linux version is linux-2.6.13-suspend2-r4 as you can see below

Raistlin · l33t Joined: 17 May 2004 Posts: 691 Location: Boston, MA

Status here: suspend/resume works flawlessly:
by issuing a simple

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forceflow2 · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:01 am Post subject:

I'm glad everyone is having such luck with this release, guess it's just me but this seems to be worse than the last release. I can't log out of XFCE without hard-locking the computer (works fine without the driver loaded) Suspend doesn't suspend, it just sits there saying "failed to suspend, attempting to recover" or some such and never does, PowerPlay usage causes graphical corruption and doesn't seem to save any power or produce less heat.
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oggialli · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:58 am Post subject:

Yatta sugoi! For me, suspend with DRI now works very nicely. Upon resume though the screen image is initially garbled and takes a small fraction of a second to be OK again.
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kreuz · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Czech Republic

Hello,

can someone please post here the important configuration options to make hibernate/suspend-to-ram working? I have radeon x300 on IBM ThinkPad R52 and I am not able to make software-suspend2-2.2-rc11 (from suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r2) working.

GoingDown · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 10:36 am Post subject: Re: hibernate.conf / ram.conf