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rogerdv
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:18 pm    Post subject: old ati card Reply with quote

My video card (Xpress 200M) is only supported until Catalyst 9.4, is there some legacy driver or something for those old hardware no longer supported in the latests driver?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 9:27 pm    Post subject: Re: old ati card Reply with quote

rogerdv wrote:
My video card (Xpress 200M) is only supported until Catalyst 9.4, is there some legacy driver or something for those old hardware no longer supported in the latests driver?

xf86-video-ati/radeonhd
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

open source drivers :) I also have:
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01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]

and I use:
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[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati
Available versions: ~6.11.0 6.12.1-r1 ~6.12.2 6.12.4 {debug}
Installed versions: 6.12.4(10:02:34 12/26/09)(-debug)
Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Description: ATI video driver


Hope this will help you :)
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How is the perfomance of xf86-ati-drivers?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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michasss@laptop /home/michasss $ glxgears
1179 frames in 5.0 seconds = 235.693 FPS
1247 frames in 5.0 seconds = 249.190 FPS
1272 frames in 5.0 seconds = 254.317 FPS
1247 frames in 5.0 seconds = 249.380 FPS
1235 frames in 5.0 seconds = 246.931 FPS
1213 frames in 5.0 seconds = 242.498 FPS


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michasss@laptop /home/michasss $ uname -a
Linux laptop 2.6.30-gentoo-r7 #15 Wed Dec 30 20:04:58 CET 2009 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux


kde 4 window effects etc. are running quit well
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