Looks good so far, time to put it through it's paces.
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so .. i still have 8.40 running ... and im not having terrible issues .. is this worth my time ?
i have a x1600 mobility card .. the ati website still lists 8.40 .. ive seen a couple people having problems getting compiz fusion to start using AIGLX .. whats up with that ?
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For those that have problems with games that are not starting or Compiz not working. There are known bugs with Xserver 1.4 / Xorg 7.3. If a game/opengl app is not starting, go to VT1, "killall <application>", go back to X and start the application/game again.
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turion 64, gentoo with x86_64 amd 64 multilib environment with 2.6.22-r9 (since 2.6.23 is not recommended for 64bit environments due some issues that i don't know), x200m. after symlinking manually the /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1.2 now the driver works out quite fine. i get a boost from about 300 fps (glxgears) with 8.40.4 to about 1800 fps with 8.42.3 and to 1600 - 1700 with aiglx enabled. now i'm currently trying out compiz-fusion 6.0 with base compiz from svn to make sure that i have the right version for the know bug with compiz 0.3 (i don't really know what it is).
i'll try this days also the new xorg-server/xorg to see how this works.
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Originally posted by pedepy View Postso .. i still have 8.40 running ... and im not having terrible issues .. is this worth my time ?
i have a x1600 mobility card .. the ati website still lists 8.40 .. ive seen a couple people having problems getting compiz fusion to start using AIGLX .. whats up with that ?
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Now working for me (Gentoo 32bits, compiz-fusion-6.0)
Edit /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager and change the path to libGL:
Code:COMPIZ_BIN_PATH="/usr/bin/" PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib/compiz/" LIBGL_NVIDIA="/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/libGL.so.1.2" # Fix 8.42.3 Ati driver. #LIBGL_FGLRX="/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/libGL.so.1.2" LIBGL_FGLRX="/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11[B]/lib/[/B]libGL.so.1.2" KWIN="/usr/kde/3.5/bin/kwin" METACITY="" SKIP_CHECKS="yes"
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Originally posted by oaul View PostAfter installing 8.42 on debian etch, wine 0.9.47 no longer starts:
"If you plan to run Wine, you will need to tell fglrx to not corrupt the fs register. To do this, add the line:
Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
to the "Device" section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This supposedly causes about a 10% hit in opengl benchmark scores, but at least things don't crash. "
Hope that helps.
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For all of you who wants to use Kernel 2.6.23, Mlau has wrote a patch for the driver that works for him and me.
Greetings to AMD, it's a greate release. ETQW runs with acceptable speed now (Radeon x850xt) and AIGLX + Compiz-Fusion is working (Etch + Compiz-Fusion SVN http://shame.tuxfamily.org/repo/?cat=11 )
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