Ubuntu 9.10. I recently tried Fedora 12 and it works even better. My understanding is that everything necessary to have a proper driver is already available, just the actual work is what needs to be done.
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I'm still surprised that you're finding image quality worse with the open source drivers than with fglrx. AFAIK most people have opposite results. Are you sure you're using -vo xv with mplayer ? Do you have a compositor running ? I believe Ubuntu enables desktop effects (ie Compiz) by default if the driver supports it. If Preferences -> Appearance -> Desktop Effects isn't set to None, try it there.
Run hwinfo --gfxcard in the terminal to find out if this is also happening on xpress 1100. spinsane
Weird. I got a 200M on my laptop running radeon and it works fine. Videos have a high CPU usage, but I guess that's expected from an integrated graphics unit (but even with the CPU at 800MHz I rarely get dropped frames). 3D performance is not that great (last time I bothered to compare it was about 50% that of Windows performance in 3D), but things like Compiz and some open source games (and recently even some 3D games under WINE) run fairly well. 2D performance and video quality are actually much better than fglrx could ever give me, and since 2D rendering and videos are the main uses of this laptop for me the driver is "good enough".
I don't use this laptop too often at the moment, but I think I'll find some time to put another boot of linux on here. Probably Ubuntu 9.04, downgrade the kernel and X to compatible degrees, and then compare the difference.
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I'm not sure it this has already been answered as I didn't read the whole thread but if you still need a way to modify your catalyst for kernel 2.6.31 then you can find the details under the following link:
After updating to 2.6.31 and adding blacklists for drm, radeon and ttm (module will not attempt to load with these other conflicting modules present), I receive this unkown symbol message in dmesg. fglrx does not load. Notably, in previous 2.6.30 kernel we have no problem after unloading a i915 conflicting module (no idea why this is happening, tracked separately at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/392039). So its back to 2.6.30 for compiz for now. A quick go...
You need to apply this patch http://launchpadlibrarian.net/296988..._by_vpid.patch and all should be fine. I have patched catalyst 9.8 this way and it works just fine.
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I kind of doubt that will work.
The problem is that the recent versions of Kernel and Xorg were built without the support for 9.3 (as far as I can tell). So if I modify the 9.3 to ignore the kernel version, I'll get nothing but an explosion.
9.8 is a legacy driver, but it IS supported by the most recent kernel. The problem presented in that bug report occured because the fglrx installation scripts are dependent upon the version number of the kernel.
With 9.3, it isn't a simple issue of modifying the installation script of the fglrx. It is an issue of adding support to the newest kernel and compiling, and then changing fglrx installation scripts and probably a few configs for Xorg. So, I think, it is a slightly more complicated task that is most simply resolved switching to a linux operating system that does not require the latest xorg/kernel to run.
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Originally posted by Kano View PostNo, ati has got the stupid idea that no driver updates after 9-3 are needed.
Originally posted by Kano View Postwin gets every 3 month driver updates for those cards.
If you want the same thing for Linux (ie without support for new kernel and X versions) I imagine we could do that but it didn't seem particularly useful. The open source drivers seemed to be a better place to put the effort.Last edited by bridgman; 26 November 2009, 05:04 PM.Test signature
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