ATI 9200 closed or open drivers? [solved]

krani1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 76

Hi there all of you

recently I switch my graphics card do a ati 9200 based card... i'm using right now the closed drivers fglrx... so i'm asking to all of you:

- what's the name of the open driver for this card? it's "radeon"? it cames with Xorg or with the kernel?
- what driver is best for this board? the closed one or the open?

i would prefer the open one cause i can use all bleeding edge kernel's (as i know right now the closed drivers don't work with recent kernels), but i don't know how to use the open drivers

any help? tia

madman2003 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 178

For anything up to and including the 9250 the open source is recommended, the rest does not work with the open source driver as far as i know. (or 3d is not accelerated) I think the driver is called radeon.

krani1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 76

well i'm with closed drivers and 3d aceleration runs very smooth.... so I'm not going to switch if open drivers doesn't provide full 3d aceleration at least...

Wedge_ · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject:

If you have a 9200, the open driver will give you full 3D acceleration. There is work going on to support it for newer cards too, but it's still experimental. Try both and see which works best for you.
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micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

madman2003 said: up to and including 9250 3D is working

So if I was you I'd just OS drivers. Saves loads of trouble. Using radeonfb (kernel) is very nice, too. Google for default_dynclk

Cheers

mic

krani1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 76

ok thx for all your help... i'm going to mark this post as solved and try radeonfb for my framebuffer and radeon for 3d acelerated Xorg