When I had an ATI card this driver was good because with the 9600 you could see videos, you could see compiz (just see because the fps was not so great in scrollings even if it was better than fglrx scrolling) and generally you could work... but it had an issue: games performances were not always so good as fglrx. If you don't play games (some emulator excluded ) this driver is the best choice.
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Originally posted by mo0n_sniper View PostI am also interested in the state of the infamous Xpress 200m with this new driver?
xv works well and fast, exa is still a little buggy and slow and with some artifacts, but it could get better in no time.
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Originally posted by givemesugarr View Postthe vt switch seems still broken and opengl still doesn't work
I'm facing this on rs690 though right now I'm running only the radeon driver 6.8.0 from sid ... Mesa and drm are old versions but I planned to upgrade them (compile from git) and see if it helps ...
I guess it will not help?
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Originally posted by givemesugarr View Postbut you have hw accel for divx5 some divx6 and xvid movies. this is quite good since neither fglrx has this yet.
xv works well and fast, exa is still a little buggy and slow and with some artifacts, but it could get better in no time.
This seems to contradict everything said so far.
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Originally posted by Kano View PostYou dream too much, there was never divx acc available, not even with win!
when playing divx-5 movies with xine and radeon i get the processor at 10% of the lower speed (800mhz) and a top thermal temp of 58? C.
when running the same movie on windows or fglrx i get the processor at 35% of middle speed (1600Mhz) and a thermal temp of 69?C.
when playing other sort of movies i don't get this behaviour except some xvid ones (probably coded for divx-5 compatibility). this has only one explanation:
hw decoding capabilities.
i got the confirmation on the xorg mailing list or on one of the radeon devs blog of the presence of hw decoding in the radeon driver. i have to find out the confirmation, but right now i'm in a hurry cause i got my favorite soccer team playing a game this evening in champions league so i'll post the link to this confirmation when i find it in the next days.
Huh? What card are you using? Xv supported?
This seems to contradict everything said so far.
i get xv overlay, xv movie accel, font antialiasing, buggy opengl, dri forced to on, but unsupported by default and no render. i use the git versions of:
libdrm, x11-drm-rework, xf86-video-ati, xorg-server, mesa, evdev, kdb, mouse and xcb. i have them compiled with xcb enabled and i have xinerama disabled. as movie player i use xine+kaffeine+external ffmpeg from svn. i have kaffeine and xine compiled with xcb and without xinerama. i use kde without any gnome package, with exception of gtk+ and some other needed packages for pidgin and pan. i'm on gentoo 2.6.23-r8 (the 24 branch is buggy with networkmanager and madwifi) with system on the amd64 branch while the other packages are from the unstable branch.
there's no compiz support, but damage, compositing and aiglx work well. glxgears shows about 900fps and i've allowed the mapping ot mtrr registers. without it the xorg seems a little buggy.
the vt switch is ctrl+atl+fx where x is the number of the virtual termina. normally the vt from 1 to 6 are console logins while the 7 to 11 are xorg ones. unfortunately the vt switch problem in radeon with some boards is well known and the devs are working on it.
dinamic clocks option works very well to keep the system cool and the battery high (i got about 10% more battery time on radeon when compared to fgrlx + powerplay).
the last good fglrx driver for this board is the december one; the january one doesn't start for the glx problem while the feb one is very angry with xorg-1.4 from git and is very slow and has a lot of artifacts even if it has rendering (100-150 fps on rendering). fglrx has opengl overlay and opengl acceleration work, while the radeon one is still faulty: for example i get a lot of problem running stellarium or google-earth. for that reason i have to run these programs with fglrx.
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Originally posted by DoDoENT View PostAll right! That's just too much for a newbie like me. I have ATI Mobility Radeon X1600. Will this driver work with it in the manner of running compiz, playing videos and games at some normal speed?
Ah, so an R300 core.
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