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Originally posted by egon2003 View PostIf that is true I will replace my card with nvidia this month.
I am getting so tired of how they handle things. Only Ubuntu getting support with prereleases etc.
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Well when you use lenny with xserver 1.4.2 you see it definitely. Maybe it is better with newer xserver, no idea. I enabled compiz for testing (because u has it on by default) and it was so extremely slow when a video way played that i uninstalled fglrx immediately. The oss driver has MUCH better xv support.
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a) I don't use compiz - because it is a broken POS, ever was
b) I don't use lenny. I don't use debian. I never will
c) I don't use stone old software. So no Xserver 1.4.X but something more recent - 1.6.1
d) even with earlier xorg-server versions I never saw that mysterious 'tearing'.
e) I am using tvtime which does not work without xv - and it works well.
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Video tearing is wierd; some people see it easily and it really bugs them, other people (like most developers ) don't see it at all. I was checking out the open drivers that shipped with Jaunty and watching Big Buck Bunny - I thought it was real smooth, but one of the guys from our multimedia team came over and was pointing out tears every few seconds. I never saw a single one.Test signature
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Originally posted by Kano View PostWell 2.6.29 support can be patched, with a smaller patch, when your distro provides some extra files or a very huge one. But 2.6.30 seems to be really problematic. When you make it compile then it uses 2 symbols which are not in the kernel anymore, one could possibly patched, but the other is in the binary part, so no go. I do not understand that when ati only provides drivers for the latest cards that they are not able to try a new kernel. Ubuntu even has got a collection of every mainline kernel incl. rc, so they would not even require to compile it on their own. Nvidia somehow manages for their current cards, for the others i am still waiting for official 2.6.30 support but 2.6.29 is there for every card.
I just make small place holder function like this:
#undef pci_enable_msi
int pci_enable_msi(struct pci_dev *pdev)
{
int pci_out;
pci_out=pci_enable_msi_block(pdev, 1);
return pci_out;
}
and add it somewhere in fglrx module.
I don't guarantee that it will actually work because last time I checked this, I was on 2.6.30-rc2 and since then I deleted my patch.RBEU #1000000000 - Registered Bad English User
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