ATI Radeon Woes on F10...

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 11:17 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> I'm working to get accelerated graphics working on my ThinkPad T400
> (Model 2765-T6U). In Discreete Graphic mode, it runs the ATI Mobility
> Radeon HD3470 video chip set. So far:
> 
> * The fglrx drivers from RPMFusion are horrid (amazingly slow)
> * The stock Radeon drivers work OK
> * The experimental Radeon HD driver works OK
> 
> None of the above seems to support 3D graphics. Does anyone have
> something working with this? Having become addicted to eye candy
> displays, I suddenly find myself needing to get my "Compiz fix".
> 
> As an aside, if I run with the Intel Internal Graphics instead, Compiz
> and Desktop Effects do work, but it's slower and a number of Open GL
> stiff doesn't work at all.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
As far as I know, AMD/ATI has yet to support xserver 1.5 in their binary
drivers (beyond releasing some a Ubuntu only beta-driver) and the 3D
support for the R600 GPU is still in early beta.

- Gilboa