ATI fglrx 8.30.3 Display Drivers

[afterburntdw]

That's disappointing, indeed. What is everyone's take on this? Wait for ATI to incorporate support in their drivers or switch to NV? Or, maybe it isn't a big deal anyways?

Forgive me for asking this if already answered elsewhere, but how difficult is it to get XGL to work on FC6?

By the way, I have an X1900XT and it's a PITA sometimes. FC6 doesn't boot until you change the xorg config.

[Michael]

That's disappointing, indeed. What is everyone's take on this? Wait for ATI to incorporate support in their drivers or switch to NV? Or, maybe it isn't a big deal anyways?

Forgive me for asking this if already answered elsewhere, but how difficult is it to get XGL to work on FC6?

By the way, I have an X1900XT and it's a PITA sometimes. FC6 doesn't boot until you change the xorg config.

Well non-X1000 users have the open-source Radeon R200/300 drivers that support the GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension, so those desperately wanting desktop eye candy could do that.

The wait for AIGLX support should hopefully be well worth the wait.

I think there's sitll RPM repos for XGL on FC6, so it shouldn't be hard at all.

[afterburntdw]

Thanks for responding so quickly. I'm new to the forum, and I appreciate reading what other Linux users have to say!

[giorgosts]

Instability..

I experience great instability when TexturedVideo is enabled. Fglrx would totally freeze my machine after 10 mins or so. I was trying to get around a bug on tv-out which is present from the 8.20 release with no fix yet. http://www.phoronix.net/forums/showt...p?t=239&page=2 The only solution is to use OpenGL for video output, which is like watching your movie in front of a fish bowl (not that TexturedVideo is any more watchable anyway). Ubuntu 6.10, fglrx 8.30. same issues with Ubuntu 6.06, fglrx 8.29

[Michael]

Hopefully an upcoming driver release will fix your video issues. Stay tuned.

[giorgosts]

Hopefully an upcoming driver release will fix your video issues. Stay tuned.

I am impressed with the instant response! I am thinking of reverting to a pre-8.20 release, but I am not sure whether it would compile with current software.

[Michael]

It probably won't compile if you're using a recent kernel, etc... You will likely also run into problems if you're using X 6.9 or newer.

[afterburntdw]

Hi Michael and others:

I decided to try Debian Etch. Everything loaded fine, but when I restarted the computer, the X wouldn't start. I wasn't really that surprised because FC6 wouldn't start X either. I was able to edit the xorg.conf and gave it the "radeon" driver, then grabbed the proprietary drivers from Livna. I'm not quite sure how to accomplish this from a command line in Debian. Any suggestions? Alternately, I guess I could download the drivers from another computer and burn them to a CD to use from a command line in Debian.

[Michael]

I am not much of a Debian user myself, but what happens if you become root and then vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf and update it? Or from any third party Debian repositories tapping into already built fglrx packages.

[EastonRoyce]

Michael, I have created torrents with working RPMS (For FC6) and Working Extracted installation files. I have created these for both 8.30.3 and 8.29.6 - Would it be ok for me to post these somewhere appropriate on your forum?