Alternative to ATI Drivers

thefatdx · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 40 Location: Australia

I recently emerged xorg 6.8 lately without rtfm ....

and im stuck with non-working, locking up piece of shit ati drivers. So ive gone to non-accelerated drivers and things are working but fonts are different sizes and graphic response is slow... Is there any other alternatives for drivers for a radeon 9600xt ?. btw i dont really wanna remerge X and im not going to go buy a nvidia card as i dont have the $

mglauche · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:35 am Post subject:

the radeon drivers are basicly accellerated, but it seems the render acceleration is missing for the R3xx types of cards, so some parts may be slow ...

Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 11:05 am Post subject:

You could also just downgrade to Xorg 6.7 until new drivers appear.
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_kopsu_ · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 11:22 am Post subject:

Bit offtopic but.. I did read from r300.sourgeforge.net that they are working on some 'alternative' to fglrx drivers (no native 3d acceleration yet)..
I think that project will be merged to DRI and could be thus used with newest X.org...

Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:09 pm Post subject:

That's hopefully what will happen eventually, but like you say, they're still some way from getting a full featured driver working.
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gmichels · Guru Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 480 Location: Brazil

There is no alternative. The only useful one you don't want to hear: buy a nvidia card.

I am considering it more and more lately (I have a 9600XT myself).

silentbob · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 159 Location: UK

nxsty · Veteran Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 1556 Location: .se

You could try this:

http://r300.sourceforge.net/

Its early DRI support for the r300.

Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 6:12 pm Post subject:

"Very early" would be more accurate. I haven't tried them for a while, but I don't think they're anywhere near ready for normal use yet (I'm not trying to put them down, I'd love an opensource driver for my 9800 Pro

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thefatdx · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 40 Location: Australia

ok seems there is no alternative except for downgrading xorg or buying an nvidia card. I have a few probs with the xorg radeon driver. Its quite slow and fonts keep stuffing up in firefox. If i open a site sometimes the fonts are small, and highlighting them brings them to the right size? can this be fixed?. or should i just stop being stubborn and downgrade to xorg 6.7 ?

swimmer · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:51 am Post subject:

Buying a nvidia card is not an alternative with a notebook

Please keep this in mind before you respond ...

grz
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silentbob · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 159 Location: UK