Hi,
My dad has a notebook with a FireGL M7740 card, has installed Ubuntu on it, and enabled the proprietary drivers. For 3D intensive applications it works quite well, however the desktop is all choppy. I tried using the opensource driver.
Now to the opensource part :
I tried installing the opensource radeon driver from xorg-edgers, and either failed miserably or it just didn't work. Knowing my way better around Fedora (and pretty much any other distro than ubuntu) a lot better, I fired up the LiveCD, and Modesetting worked perfectly. However there was no 3D acceleration (glxinfo reported LLVMPipe as renderer). That was a surprise.
My question is : what is the status of the support of this card? I read up and discovered that it's based on the RadeonHD 4860. Knowing that the 4XXX series are quite well supported, I'm confused....
Thanks,
Serafean
My dad has a notebook with a FireGL M7740 card, has installed Ubuntu on it, and enabled the proprietary drivers. For 3D intensive applications it works quite well, however the desktop is all choppy. I tried using the opensource driver.
Now to the opensource part :
I tried installing the opensource radeon driver from xorg-edgers, and either failed miserably or it just didn't work. Knowing my way better around Fedora (and pretty much any other distro than ubuntu) a lot better, I fired up the LiveCD, and Modesetting worked perfectly. However there was no 3D acceleration (glxinfo reported LLVMPipe as renderer). That was a surprise.
My question is : what is the status of the support of this card? I read up and discovered that it's based on the RadeonHD 4860. Knowing that the 4XXX series are quite well supported, I'm confused....
Thanks,
Serafean
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