well, patch X and see almost all problems go away...
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Originally posted by BillBroadley View PostAnyone out there there with a ati 4770, how does it work with google earth (full screen), video playback (full screen) and compiz?
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Originally posted by BillBroadley View PostI've been on the nvidia side for quite awhile and I have to say I kinda agree with phoronix. As a nvidia user under linux I'm used to compiz, google earth working, full screen video playback. Even on fairly old hardware mid range from a few generations ago. In fact similar even works on the rather slow intel embedded chipsets. I bought a new quad core phenom, with the radeon 3300 (785g I believe) only to find that compiz, google earth, and full screen video playback do not work well. ATI seems to be trying hard, publishing tons of docs, some support for the opensource folks. But still seems lacking with a decent driver (binary or otherwise).
Anyone out there there with a ati 4770, how does it work with google earth (full screen), video playback (full screen) and compiz?
I guess I dodged the bullet because I'm still using the old HD 3870. Compiz used to be abysmal, but it improved greatly with Catalyst 9.2 - 9.6. Catalyst 9.8 seems to have fixed whatever that was causing the random hard locks (someone else mentioned it in the forums), and I've been able to play Nexuiz since Catalyst 8.7.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostMy guess was "a couple of weeks for modesetting and a couple of months for acceleration".
Alex is going to be out at XDC next week so I'm revising that to "a few weeks for modesetting..."
We haven't started the work though, so these really are guesses for now.
Anything we can help with? Docs available?
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Originally posted by Joe Sixpack View PostNice try.
The topic was about AMD, and how they didn't provide phoronix with a sample. Not about Linux as a whole, not about phoronix as a whole. If you don't see it, no biggie - but that's an invalid comparison and a rather childish rolling of the eyes.
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Yes, I agree.
On my desktop 4850, I have had some noticeable improvements in performance, and bugfixes since I got it a year ago.
Where are the benchmarks comparing the different ATI divers on each new release?
I used to look at the articles, and I'd get a good idea of what the new driver bring. Now, I have to read trough a hundred pages of forum posts to get an idea.
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Originally posted by energyman View Postif you try the ubuntu-pre-relase of the 9.10 drivers, they might work - but you also might get a 'hardware not supported' watermark in the right bottom corner
imho worth a try
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I'm typing this from a Debian Lenny/Sid amd64 box (AMD X4 955BE, 8GB PC2-8500, MSI K9A2 Platinum) with a brand new Radeon 5870 in it. I've got the "Unsupported hardware" banner at the bottom right, but I've not run into any problems so far. I've been running Heroes of Newerth at 1680x1050, vsync off, with 8xAA and 32xAF on at >70FPS. X-Plane runs very nicely at 1680x1050 extreme res with 4xAA and 4xAF (not nudged it any higher yet), ETQW runs very nicely with 16xAF (>60FPS constant). This is with Catalyst 9.9.Last edited by GotenXiao; 02 October 2009, 07:12 PM.
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