On 11/1/07, Karthik Ramgopal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 31 October 2007 09:15:24 pm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Re: Linux + AMD support > > Hi, > I own an ATI Radeon X1800XT 512MB. When I bought it, it was kinda > the > flagship GPU. But sad to say, the ATI Linux experience has been very > frustrating. > > 1. Installing and configuring xorg.conf with fglrx is a big headache. > aticonfig doesnt set all options for me, and some I have to set Manually. > > 2. Surprisingly, some 7 drivers from 8.33.6 to 8.38.6 never worked on my > card. > I used to get a hung comp with Xorg eating 100% CPU. So, I was stuck on > kernel 2.6.18 and finally got 2.6.20 working with a patch published by > Phoronix for 8.32.5. We filed many bug reports as the problem was being > faced > by many ATI users. Although ATI never acknowledged our report, the problem > was mysteriously fixed in 8.39.4. > > 3. All four driver versions since then have been a major disappointment. > 8.39.4 just got my card running. 8.40.4 was fine but with broken Xv, and > Textured Video. (Tearing of video) > > 4. 8.41.7 (Much touted new OpenGL codebase driver) gave me slow crappy 2D > performance. Talk of slow window refreshing and minimizing (even with the > normal X11 (no fancy XGL) ). Video tearing was also rampant. > > 5. 8.42.4 got me AIGLX. Beryl runs fine. But with very low framerates. > Video > playback is fine now (Xv no longer tears video). But surprisingly, I cant > change any 3D settings in this driver in the Catalyst Control Centre. > Compiz > fusion has never worked for me with this driver, and I have slow scrolling > problems in Firefox, windows with AIGLX enabled. So for now back to 8.40.4 > and XGL. > > Just waiting for the open source RadeonHD to mature. I am tired of AMD's > promises and continually disappointing fglrx releases. So stick with > Nvidia > for now.
i am running out of luck these days. the board that i was planning to buy (with geforce 6150 + nforce 430) got out of stock 2 days back. so now, wat i can get below 5k in ASUS is an M2A-VM (with ATI Radeon X1250). i dont want to rely on my luck anymore and in no mood to try ATI. Do gigabyte boards go well with AMD..?? becoz i am getting a lot of Nvidia options in that. -- Sahil MCA(SE) USIT GGSIPU, Kashmere Gate Delhi _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
