I have and old Radeon 9000 AGP on a Pentium 3 system. It always worked well with the open drivers, also for 3D.
But the current situation is really awful. I'm using linux 2.6.34.1, mesa, libdrm and xserver-xorg-video-ati from git. With KMS I get working 2D and 3D, but everything is slow and sluggish (even the simplest games are not playable and 2D operations in KDE are a real pain). If I boot with radeon.modeset=0, I get acceptable 2D performance but software only 3D (0.3 FPSin most things and no desktop effects). But no error is reported in the logs and glxinfo says direct rendering is enabled. So I'm left in an unusuable state. Since I know what this card can do (and did), I really hope some dev will give some love to this old but still useful cards! Thanks
But the current situation is really awful. I'm using linux 2.6.34.1, mesa, libdrm and xserver-xorg-video-ati from git. With KMS I get working 2D and 3D, but everything is slow and sluggish (even the simplest games are not playable and 2D operations in KDE are a real pain). If I boot with radeon.modeset=0, I get acceptable 2D performance but software only 3D (0.3 FPSin most things and no desktop effects). But no error is reported in the logs and glxinfo says direct rendering is enabled. So I'm left in an unusuable state. Since I know what this card can do (and did), I really hope some dev will give some love to this old but still useful cards! Thanks
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