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Yes, but I don't think we'll have 3D ready in time to be included in 9.04 -- it'll have to be added separately by updating drivers after 9.04 is released.
I am hoping we can get EXA (2D) and Xv (video) acceleration in though...Test signature
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostYes, but I don't think we'll have 3D ready in time to be included in 9.04 -- it'll have to be added separately by updating drivers after 9.04 is released.
I am hoping we can get EXA (2D) and Xv (video) acceleration in though...
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Originally posted by TheK View PostUhm, you know, that the beta freeze is in 1 week? I wonder, how you are so sure, that you can get *any* new update in...
There's a good chance this will happen here, too.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostThe 5xx generation of GPUs don't have the kind of video overlay you remember from earlier hardware. It's not a question of driver support.
Originally posted by bridgman View PostRotation and multi-monitor should both be supported in the open drivers today.
My impression was that stability with the open drivers was very good today; have you tried them recently ?
Right now I am staring on my desktop computer screens looking at garbled output from the ati driver. Whole bunch of white lines. I move a window, it doesn't even redraw itself. This is with the ati driver. At least the resolution & rotation is correct.
RadeonHD v1.2.4 ain't any better. Sure, it works more or less with the single center monitor but the moment I enable a second monitor, things just stop working properly. The main resolution is bumped down from 2560x1600 to 1920x1200 with no way to get it back up, the second monitor has constant flickering lines and keeps blanking out every few seconds and takes forever to redraw anything - it literally takes seconds to repaint a window. Also, I can't rotate it unless I lower the resolution making it completely useless.
With both drivers I haven't had any luck to enable my third monitor connected to the other card.
Just curious, what are you waiting for from the open drivers ? AFAIK for your card (I'm guessing high end 5xx ?) they have caught up with fglrx in every area except gaming performance already.
- see above - the BIG issue
- cursor corruption - turns into a vertical hatched line or just garbled
- stable video output, so I don't have to worry about X crashing completely when I start playing something
- flicker free, high resolution video display capability with no crashes and no frame dropping
- yes, 3D acceleration - I want to play a game every now and again
- ability to switch to VT's and not just get black screens
- properly working compositing (not that fglrx is better)
I don't think anyone is saying "throw the card out", are we ? We're just saying "from this point on we're going to be delivering support via the open source drivers".
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Originally posted by pawstar View PostYes, the X1950 XTX, the highest-end r5xx card that was released back in the day.
- see above - the BIG issue
- cursor corruption - turns into a vertical hatched line or just garbled
- stable video output, so I don't have to worry about X crashing completely when I start playing something
- flicker free, high resolution video display capability with no crashes and no frame dropping
- yes, 3D acceleration - I want to play a game every now and again
- ability to switch to VT's and not just get black screens
- properly working compositing (not that fglrx is better)
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Originally posted by MostAwesomeDude View PostThose all work for me with my X1950. Still, I hope you've been filing bugs if everything's broken for you.
However, I haven't actually been using the opensource drivers that much. Its been try it out -doesn't work, go back to fglrx.
With XAA, things are unbearable, enabling EXA the configuration get more usable. Part of the problem I think is due to my huge resolution for my main monitor (2560x1600) i.e. its using a dual-link connection. Dunno, there must be some bugs there. For one, I cant set a virtual resolution beyond 4060x1600 without getting the ridiculously slow redrawing on the screen - but this means I have overlap on my monitors
As an aside, I know I am not the only one having problems with the open source drivers:
some other threads as well.
P.S. I am just pulling in xf86-video-ati-6.12.0 which hit the portage tree so will see if it helps out.
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