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Originally posted by RealNC View PostIf fglrx doesn't work, you are forced to go git master to get your card working with radeon/radeonhd. If ATI later says "we fixed it", it would much easier if I could try it out myself on X.Org 7.4 rather than spending the evening downgrading to 7.3 only to discover that it still doesn't work and then having to upgrade again to git.
I guess in your case it'd be best to spent ~5GB for a second distribution installation in order to test wether a new fglrx release fixed your problem.
I now that's not really the answer you want to hear, but it's the sad reality that binary blobs don't fit too well in the OSS world
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Originally posted by NeoBrain View PostFirst things first, the demand for crossfire under Linux has been there for a much longer time than the demand for Xorg 7.4 support.
Apart from that, that Xorg "release" is not even out or considered stable yet. The official Catalyst driver, as bridgman once stated, is intended for everyday use on stable systems, which don't use the bleeding-edge development trees, whereas radeon and radeonhd are intended to support them.
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Originally posted by quintesse View PostOh sure, Crossfire support! I wish they would support the latest XOrg (the one used by Fedora 9) instead! Got this great new card and I haven't been able to use it AT ALL in the last couple of months. Even video stutters. *sigh*
Apart from that, that Xorg "release" is not even out or considered stable yet. The official Catalyst driver, as bridgman once stated, is intended for everyday use on stable systems, which don't use the bleeding-edge development trees, whereas radeon and radeonhd are intended to support them.
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Oh sure, Crossfire support! I wish they would support the latest XOrg (the one used by Fedora 9) instead! Got this great new card and I haven't been able to use it AT ALL in the last couple of months. Even video stutters. *sigh*
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I can't even imagine what bad things would happen if the users knew the driver's version you've used (I know this has been brought up before)
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Heh, you sound like you could know when the new driver is out
Whatsoever, I'm really looking forward to seeing some benchmarks and how well Crossfire setups scale, keep up the good work!
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AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 On Linux
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While details on AMD's high-end ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card began surfacing last month, today this dual-GPU graphics card has formally launched and will begin shipping to retailers. The good news this time around is that this graphics card will actually be something worth looking at under Linux now that there's the needed CrossFire support on the horizon. We're not yet permitted to publish the Linux CrossFire benchmarks, but today we have a few pieces of information to share about the Radeon HD 4870 X2 on Linux.
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