[fr-list] new ati drivers

[mtlagm at gmail.com]

I am testing it on a Compaq Presario v5000 (Radeon XPRESS
200M 5955) with kernel 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.

On the bright side:

** hibernate works sometimes;

** suspend works fine, even after a failed hibernate;

** Xv works fine (VideoOverlay "on"), thus mplayer -vo xv is
   taking very few CPU power; :)

** switch back and forth to text console works fine, unlike
   the free radeon driver which sometimes messes the graphics
   up beyond repair.

On the dark side:

** hibernate does not work some other times. :)

After 8.29 I'd say this is the best release in the recent
streak.  Someday they will eventualy come up with a flawless
driver.

Mihai

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Dario Castellarin wrote:

> I've been testing it the whole day on my Dell Inspiron 1501 (Radeon Xpress
> 1150), here's my report:
> 
> - it's true! Xv no longer crashes when using GL overlay on x86_64, so you
> don't have to force Xv overlay anymore
> 
> - resuming from suspend finally works! And it's also very very fast, I was
> surprised of it, much faster than using the default radeon driver...
> 
> - hibernate fails with this error:
> swsusp: Need to copy 122476 pages
> swsusp: Not enough free memory
> Error -12 suspending
> not sure if it's fglrx's fault, anyway it was working before. I must say that
> after failure I'm brought back to my desktop without problems, even if cpufreq
> governor is somehow set to userspace instead of ondemand...
> 
> Anyway, my overall judgement is that it's worth to be sent to stable repo, the
> imrpvements on both Xv and suspend are in my opinion too important to be
> delayed.
> I'd like to read some other experiences anyway...
> 
> Dario
> 
> Matthias Saou ha scritto:
> > Dario Castellarin wrote :
> > 
> >   
> > > Bumping this, the freeze after hibernation and the Xv segfault on x86_64
> > > bugs seem to be finally wiped out! Yay!
> > >     
> > 
> > Here you go :-)
> > 
> > http://ftp.es6.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/testing/6/
> > 
> > Matthias
> > 
> >