ATi Catalyst crashes after 2 entrances into X.

[Ishayu]

I can't really be bothered with the whole quotewar thing but...

I just recieved word that my graphics card is integrated, so no replacing it.

FUCK
MY
LIFE
SUCKS

*sob*

[neuron]

didn't he say that he played world of warcraft though? Is that really playable on the open source drive?

[Ishayu]

on the galium3D driver,,

I had no idea the Gallium3D driver was so far along! :O
Ace.

How's the power management in it? Might have to go for it.

[neuron]

is 2.6.37 rc's + xorg-edgers all you need to try galium3d, or is mesa still default on ubuntu?

[neuron]

Just tried on maverick. 2.6.37-rc3 and xorg-edgers radeon driver.

I'm extremely impressed to be honest.. since my last testing with 2.6.36 some extremely annoying bugs have been fixed. I had problems with displayport (which I use a LOT), and it seems to be working 100% now.

That said, I couldn't get world of warcraft running. It starts up, I'm missing models in the main screen+character selection, and it crashed in world.

But I'll be sure to keep a closer eye on it. I think my test enviroment is gonna be using radeon for now. And I might just live in that enviroment during the work week, I've had some problems with suspend2ram on fglrx.

[bridgman]

You may be running the "classic" Mesa driver rather than the "gallium3d" (aka r600g) version. Check your glxinfo output :

glxinfo | grep renderer (or just scroll through the glxinfo output)

You might have to change an environment variable to get the gallium3d driver variant, it's not the default yet.

[d2kx]

If you want to try r600g, there is the xorg-edgers/gallium PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/radeon

[neuron]

You may be running the "classic" Mesa driver rather than the "gallium3d" (aka r600g) version. Check your glxinfo output :

glxinfo | grep renderer (or just scroll through the glxinfo output)

You might have to change an environment variable to get the gallium3d driver variant, it's not the default yet.

$ glxinfo | grep rend
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER

If you want to try r600g, there is the xorg-edgers/gallium PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/radeon

That's the one I tried.

[bridgman]

I guess the message needs to be updated.. should be r3xx-Evergreen...

[Ishayu]

So... I decided to do it anyway. I dunno why. FGLRX failed on me again and I don't want that to happen at the exam, and also I have an Ubuntu install disc right next to me AND I realized I can just use the old kernel. Whoop-de-do.

I managed to install it and use it. I am now in 2.6.37-020637rc3-generic (the rc4 wasn't in the repo. The headers were, but the image wasn't. So... yeah)

I haven't seen any improvements at all though.
I understand I have to activate dynpm, but I don't know how to do it.
I also understand I have to somehow activate Gallium3D, but none of the packages have Gallium3D in their names. I am currently using MESA still, apparently, despite adding the xorg-edgers ppa.

Enlighten me, please.

This thread is turning out surprisingly good by the way. Thanks for the help everyone.