The Intro:
Hello all, I am new to Linux. Well after all the days and hours I've spent trying to get it to work, I may actually be a little bit more knowledgeable than the average newb.
After seeing a few videos on youtube.com about linux, I was wowed and decided I wanted to give it a try. My experience thus far has been a rough one, yet, I'm still intrigued.........
The Machine:
Saphire HD2600XT/256 DDR4 RAM
AMD X2 5600+ 2.8 Ghz
ASUS M2N-E Motherboard/SocetAM2/BIOS revision 0802
2 GB of Mushkin Enhanced RAM/800 Mhz/5-4-4-10
80 GB SATA Hard Drive
The Battle:
It was a dark and cloudy night. Silence settles on the battlefield as the components assume their rightful positions. The faint sounds of victory chants can be heard afar. Anxiety lurks within the man. "Captain I'm scared!", yells the video card before being deployed.
Actually it wasn't like that, but I was pretty excited to get Linux working.
I got Opensuse 10.2 installed correctly. I installed all the necessary packages before video driver installation. To list a few:
kernel-source
Mesa-devel
zlib-devel
I performed all the pre-installation procedures according to a document I cross referenced.
make mrproper
make cloneconfig
make modules_prepare
make clean
Then I installed the driver package, installed the driver. The one thing I wasn't sure of was "XFree86" referenced on ATI's release notes. Typed in aticonfig --initial. Then restarted.
The Aftermath:
I didn't expect this to work. But miraculously it did. The images were sharp, and things looked great. Well at least until I opened and dragged a window.
The Problem:
When I drag an open window, I see a lot of choppiness. It is very noticeable. I can't enable 3D Acceleration. I'm assuming the driver is not designed for that to work anyway. The reason for this thread is to find out if any one else is using the HD2600 series card, or even HD2000 series cards, and is actually experiencing the great performance that was promised by this driver. Please leave a reply. Thank you for reading, and thanks for your reply in advance.
Hello all, I am new to Linux. Well after all the days and hours I've spent trying to get it to work, I may actually be a little bit more knowledgeable than the average newb.
After seeing a few videos on youtube.com about linux, I was wowed and decided I wanted to give it a try. My experience thus far has been a rough one, yet, I'm still intrigued.........
The Machine:
Saphire HD2600XT/256 DDR4 RAM
AMD X2 5600+ 2.8 Ghz
ASUS M2N-E Motherboard/SocetAM2/BIOS revision 0802
2 GB of Mushkin Enhanced RAM/800 Mhz/5-4-4-10
80 GB SATA Hard Drive
The Battle:
It was a dark and cloudy night. Silence settles on the battlefield as the components assume their rightful positions. The faint sounds of victory chants can be heard afar. Anxiety lurks within the man. "Captain I'm scared!", yells the video card before being deployed.
Actually it wasn't like that, but I was pretty excited to get Linux working.
I got Opensuse 10.2 installed correctly. I installed all the necessary packages before video driver installation. To list a few:
kernel-source
Mesa-devel
zlib-devel
I performed all the pre-installation procedures according to a document I cross referenced.
make mrproper
make cloneconfig
make modules_prepare
make clean
Then I installed the driver package, installed the driver. The one thing I wasn't sure of was "XFree86" referenced on ATI's release notes. Typed in aticonfig --initial. Then restarted.
The Aftermath:
I didn't expect this to work. But miraculously it did. The images were sharp, and things looked great. Well at least until I opened and dragged a window.
The Problem:
When I drag an open window, I see a lot of choppiness. It is very noticeable. I can't enable 3D Acceleration. I'm assuming the driver is not designed for that to work anyway. The reason for this thread is to find out if any one else is using the HD2600 series card, or even HD2000 series cards, and is actually experiencing the great performance that was promised by this driver. Please leave a reply. Thank you for reading, and thanks for your reply in advance.
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