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It looks like FireGL ASICs will now be disabled in 8.43...
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Michael Larabel
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Can you elaborate -- do you mean that you're saying that perhaps the FireGL chips will be disabled in 8.43 -- ie no FireGL support.Originally posted by Michael View Post
I think I'm going to cry :-(Comment
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lol that is ridiculous.. you figure that 3 months is enough to enable the very cards that the driver is named after.Comment
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What are we supposed to do then ?? :-(Originally posted by Michael View Post
I'm having issues with the patch workaround and my T60p only runs windows now :-(..and I'm running 32 bit Fedora 8 on vmware on a 64 bit AMD box with NIVIDIA card...Comment
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You're f<beep>ing kidding, right?Originally posted by Michael View Post
When is AMD/ATI finally going to release a driver that will officially support (mobility) FireGL cards?
When selecting Linux/FireGL on ati.amd.com/support/driver.html, the only version that is being offered is 8.35.5 which was released in March! That's like 8 months ago.
I'm currently running a patched 8.42.3 which works with the V5250 in my T60p without any problems the Radeon users don't have also. So… Why disable if it actually works?Last edited by Alexander He?; 14 November 2007, 04:34 PM.Comment
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I guess you never tried it with "real" 3d apps, like test 3/4 of gl2benchmark which uses openscenegraph...Comment
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Ditto! What? I just said yesterday that I was sick and tired of not being able to use my laptop for real (T60p) because of this exact issue. Even when I have the POS 8.35 installed with other distro's it loses its mind and reports false temperature reading to ACPI and the machine shutsdown. Reporting anything realated to a FireGL V5250 to AMD/ATI results in "call the vendor (Lenovo), its not an AMD/ATI product"Originally posted by Alexander He? View Post
How many times are they going to say "next month"
Why doesn't an ATI engineer dare to show there face here?
Could you please post the pointer to how you got this working with F8? I can not for the life of me make it work.Originally posted by Alexander He? View Post
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Hm, I guess Lenovo is also fed up with AMD/ATI since they switched to Nvidia on the 61 models.Originally posted by ctirpak View Post
Probably until "next month"Originally posted by ctirpak View Post
I used Kano's method which has been described by ambro814 in this thread. I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 and it worked on the first try.Originally posted by ctirpak View PostComment
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Thanks - I'll give that a try. Does it only work on 8.41 or can it also be used on 8.42?I used Kano's method which has been described by ambro814 in this thread. I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 and it worked on the first try.
I'll give this a whirl on F8/64 tonight.Comment
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This discussion is the kind of thing that makes me think carefully about buying ANY ati card in future. Indeed for my last PC card I was hovering between ATI and Nvidia. In HW specs ATI was better, but my confidence in drivers far lower...... I went for Nvidia.
Ok so 8.42.3 in a T60p .. I tried that but didn't have good results, most serious problem was that after resuming from suspend the screen would be blank ,and sometimes would hit a kernel dump.
Also I could not get compiz working properly with a 2nd DVI screen with hot plugging, the full resolution could not be selected.
What I need is
- RHEL5.1 support
- stability (no kernel hangs)
- suspend/resume
- hot dock/undock with external display
- basic GL support (google earth, Secondlife)
- Ideally compiz
Right now with 8.35.5 I can mostly get the first 4 of those. No driver since has come close...Comment
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