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James Kosin wrote:
| Robin Laing wrote: | | | James Kosin wrote: | | | |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | |> Hash: SHA1 | |> | |> Scott Talbot wrote: | |> | Hello all: | |> | | |> | I've been using Gnome since I installed FC1, several months ago, and | |> | didn't realize until now that screensavers, especially those using 3D | |> | graphics, flicker annoyingly, at a rate which seems affected by the | |> | refresh rate. | |> | | |> | /sbin/lspci shows: | |> | | |> | 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD | |> | [Radeon 7200] (rev 01) | |> | | |> | X11/xfree86config: | |> | | |> | Section "Device" | |> | Identifier "Videocard0" | |> | Driver "radeon" | |> | VendorName "Videocard vendor" | |> | BoardName "ATI Radeon 7200" | |> | EndSection | |> | | |> | I tried changing driver to ati, without any change. | |> | glxgears runs with the results 4368 frames in 5.0 seconds = 873.600 | |> FPS | |> | which is comparable to the numbers I get with Gnome. | |> | | |> | I'm out of ideas -- any help? | |> | | |> | Scott | |> | | |> | | |> Scott, | |> | |> Get in line... Currently, there is no support for 3D graphics for the | |> ATI drivers. They have experimental drivers out there if you may be | |> interested. ATI & NVIDIA cards both have problems with Linux in | |> general. I always have to tweak the configuration manually to get the | |> drivers for my ATI card to work and many users of NVIDIA have to build | |> new drivers every time the kernel changes. | |> Maybe one day I'll be able to install Linux (any flavor) and get a | |> working graphical boot the first time. | |> Until someone finishes 3D support for the ATI chipset, we just have to | |> wait or try one of the experimental drivers out there. | |> | |> Wish it where better news, | |> James | |> | | | | I dumped my ATI card (9600) for a NVidia after fighting for a month. The | | recompiling the NVidea drivers with each kernel upgrade is minor | | compared to the missing 3D graphics and associated problems. (lack of | | game support :) ) | | | | ATI's own software does NOT support 3d and I didn't find this out until | | after I purchased the card. :( | | | Robin Laing, | | You have to check out ATI's site. They say their drivers do support | 3D... Just not opensource due to proprietary disclosure agreements | limit them from releasing the information as opensource. | | Thanks, | James |
Ok, correcting myself some more..... XFree86 4.4.0 will contain support for 3D using ATI chipsets below Radeon 8500... ATI's site has 3D support for Radeon 8500 and above on their web-site... Binaries only! Hmm... amazing how things change so quickly.
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