r300 driver stability

[Andras Simon]

On 5/31/07, Klaasjan Brand <klaasjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/07, Andras Simon <szajmi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Having been bitten in the past by the
> > proprietary NVidia drivers, this time I'm leaning towards the r300
> > series of ATI cards, as they are supported by OS drivers. (Actually,
> > I'd prefer one of the r200 series of cards, but I haven't found one
> > with a PCIe interface.) But since the r300 driver is based on reverse
> > engineering, I'm not sure if this is a safe choice. Could someone who
> > uses it tell about his/her experiences, especially stability-wise?
>
>
> I've been using the r300 driver on a desktop with a Radeon X800 (PCI-E) card
> and a laptop with built-in Mobile Radeon 9700 (AGP). Both on Fedora 6 and
> working without problems, including the compiz desktop. Some applications
> update a bit slow on the 3d desktop (especially on the 9700), which can be
> worked around by dropping the colordepth to 16 bits. Both systems are rock
> solid, no crashes due to the display driver. There's sometimes a glitch in
> compiz which makes window borders disappear, which could be a driver
> problem, but it's easily fixes by restarting compiz.

Thanks, this is very reassuring! Are you by any chance running 64 bit
Fedora on any of these machines? Because it looks like that matters,
too.

Andras