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Does it look like the xv slowness and flickering of gl with composite are just a problem on my system (gk si HD3200)?.. It would be really weird since I had this problems with the Ubuntu 9.4 driver, as well as with the 9.5 and 9.6 drivers from the ATI site. By the way.. before I installed a new version of the driver I "purged" the previous. Any suggestions?
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Originally posted by Kano View PostThats a general problem. Maybe users of faster chips do not see that so extreme, but my 3450 has really bad xv. Onboard vga is also slow - but it can not be normal that you need a highend gpu for faster xv!
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Originally posted by LostinSpacetime View PostThis is so hard (for me) to believe since x11 is by far faster than xv and x11 doesn't get any hw acceleration at all. I still think either this is a bug in the driver, or something is wrong with my driver installation. Also the flickering for GL should be solved since 9.5. I postet my xorg log some messages before. Maybe somebody can read something out of it?
Luckily for me so has the free open source driver perfectly working video, I have awesome flickerless video quality with HD-content and fairly low cpu-utilization using the free driver. I'm using a HD4350 and an E8400. Also, 2D is very good with the free driver; good stable accelleration with no smearing and very high IQ quite comparable to the viewing experience under Windows 7/Vista.
Too bad the free driver doesn't support any 3D-acceleration at all with HD4xxx-cards, otherwise 3D IQ i very good but 1-2 fps isn't too exciting. But i don't game on my Linux box, so I'm happy using the free driver for the moment.
BUT it _would_ be awesome to have a working 3D-driver for HD4xxx-cards under Linux, especially since the HD4xxx-series have sold so well so there must be lots and lots of users out there waiting for it to work.
(I have a HD4850 in my Windows-box which will be migrated to the Linux-box when HD58xx i out, how nice it would be if 3D worked by then!).
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Originally posted by LostinSpacetime View PostThanks This is my xorg log: http://pastebin.com/m5ad67302
Can you please pastebin your conf file as well ?Test signature
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostSorry, but I have to ask; where are you hearing that fglrx doesn't work with HD4xxx cards ? We shipped Linux support for HD4xxx at the same time as Windows support.
Mostly my personal problem, I'm sorry for that, but that's what happens when used to Windows where one doesn't change the kernel very often(only when new major Windows-version comes out) and drivers mostly work because of that.
I will try to use a separate older kernel to change to during boottime, I'm sure fglrx-3D will work correctly then(minus xv-acc and uvd2 I guess). I just have to figure out how to smoothly switch between two different xorg.conf so as to not being stuck at a black screen with a blinking cursor when xorg is supposed to start. Thank's for asking
edit. my personal hardware problems above higlights what's been said in other places in this forum; to concentrate on making the open source driver fully working even in 3D would be much more beneficial for the end user: as we would no longer be stuck to using a certain kernel/distro as long as it is above the first supported version. That is how ie the Intel videodriver works, no binary blob, and thet is much better even though the Intel hardware of course is much inferior. That would be a real dream come trueLast edited by xeizo; 05 July 2009, 07:08 AM.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostCan you please pastebin your conf file as well ?
This is my xorg.conf: http://pastebin.com/m338d196
Thanks for your efforts.
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