New ATI driver

[Dario Castellarin]

Well, support on <R600 is "unofficial", but on Phoronix they claim that 
it works without problems.
On my laptop with an Xpress 1150, it's plain crap. It killed rhgb, but 
while X.org seems to load fine, and glxinfo reports working direct 
rendering, every application trying to use OpenGL segfaults. Even 
fgl_glxinfo, their own test program. Plus, there's very annoying 
graphical corruption around the mouse cursor. And not to mention, 
suspend/hibernate don't work.
This is on x86_64, I don't know if the situation is different on i386...
I wonder if AMD will ever manage to provide a working driver for F7 
x86_64... Good that they're releasing their specs, their driver is just 
shameful.

Dario

Matthias Saou ha scritto:
> Mike Chambers wrote :
>
>   
>> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:00 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Here you go :-)
>>>
>>> http://ftp.es6.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/testing/7/
>>>
>>> I don't have any hardware to test it, so feel free to post some
>>> feedback!
>>>       
>> This version doesn't work with F8 does it?  I believe due to xorg-7.3?
>> As I have an ATI X1300 card and it didn't seem to work.
>>     
>
> From what I read, this driver only supports R600 chips, and your card
> would be an R500, unfortunately. See :
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Processing_Units
> http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeonhdd.html
>
> Matthias
>
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