Unless I'm misunderstanding something, ATI basically said
"screw you" to anybody with a 92xx series card. ATI's drivers
stopped supporting the r2xx chipsets after version 8.28.8, and
that version only works up through xorg 7.1.
My ATI based card is only 3 years old, and it's useless if I
want to do DRI. OTOH, I've got a 7 year old NVidia card that's
still supported. The closed source NV drivers have always
"just worked" for me, and the ATI close-source drivers have
always been hard to get installed and flakey once they were
installed.
Yes I know there are open-source drivers that are supposed to
do DRI for the r2xx chipset, but they've got so many rendering
issues they're useless. I just tried again with the
open-source drivers. Glxgears runs OK, but on the opening
screen of ppracer, none of the menu text is rendered.
I swear I'll never buy another ATI chipset again. If AMD
doesn't straighten out the mess at ATI, I'll switch back to
Intel CPUs as well...
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