Phoronix IRC Log: 2010-10-02
GPenguin: hi guys
GPenguin: which tests of the phoronix test suite are best suited to measure and compare latency how its influencing the "desktop usage experience"?
GPenguin: re
AndroUser: hi everybody
AndroUser: first time ver
AndroUser: first time here, discovering
AndroUser: wanted to ask, does anybody know whether thee open source AMD driver (r300/r300g, r600/r600g) supports crossfire?
xaphir: AndroUser: the open source driver is #radeon
xaphir: AndroUser: I think if you want crossfire you'd be best to stick with fglrx
AndroUser: yes but I want to usea crossfire config
AndroUser: and I want oss drivers
Kame: Why?
AndroUser: crossfire for better.3d
AndroUser: and keeping a powerful pc even when evergreen become viewed as "old"
Kame: .... right
xaphir: Kame: :)
AndroUser: plus : unigine games :p
AndroUser: who knows what there'll be in the future on linux? the sky is the lomit
Kame: I... wasn't really asking about the crossfire
AndroUser: anybody knows whethuer crossfire in the oss driver is possible (is in the open spec)
AndroUser: and if yes" whether work has begun on it
xaphir: like I said, #radeon is the oss version of the ati driver
xaphir: ask there
AndroUser: ok
AndroUser: ty
xaphir: yw
xaphir: but if you want it to work, go to #ati.
AndroUser: first i want to know if it is supported or is a planned evolution
xaphir: is what supported?
AndroUser: crossfire
xaphir: AndroUser: it's supported by fglrx, which is #ati