On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, joe wrote: >As far as ATI, I tried a radeon vl to get away >from having to mess with new driver installs >every time I upgraded the kernel - the radeon >with the dri drivers worked fairly well in q3a >and the 3D screensavers worked ok -but the >box would immediately lock up hard any time I >tried to launch RtCW - this is of course totally >unacceptable, so I yanked the ATI and sold >it to a win doze user - I popped in an nvidia >and the box has been rock solid ever since.
That RTCW lockup bug has been fixed for quite a while with the combination of our erratum kernels, and my latest X packages for 8.0 (4.2.1). The problem doesn't show up with the demo though, just the real game. Works fine for me on Radeon for 8 months or more now. >When I heard about the recent availability of 3D support for ATI >cards, I hoped the drivers had matured, but from your account, >it sounds as though the open source ATI drivers are unusable. That very much depends on one's perception and expectations. If having a couple of 3D applications cause instability is "unuseable" then there is no such thing as stable video drivers on any OS platform. None that I've seen anyway. What is stable for one person, is unstable for someone else. There's no avoiding that, as software is just not perfect (nor is hardware). >So, unless the ATI drivers work like magic (we are awaiting your >report) it sounds like nvidia is still the only game in town, >quite literally, for 3D linux gaming. That very much depends on one's perception and expectations. The open source ATI drivers work quite well for me, and do so on multiple CPU architectures (x86, x86_64, alpha, ia64). Your mileage may vary. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
