2,203,458 Radeon Driver Errors
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Jul 11 16:22:12 UTC 2008
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Maybe, but my experience is that its not there yet. fglrx doesn't work
> on F9 (no support for Xorg 1.4.99), and before that, when Red Hat jumped
> to the 2.6.25 kernel, there was no immediate support for that. I had to
> find a driver in a testing repo to fix that problem.
Oops, sorry, should have said that it didn't work on x86_64! Initially
it worked on i386. My bad. Had to do with the kernel symbols. fglrx
needed some that were removed. That got resolved. Now the xorg 1.5
problem remains.
> Using the radeon driver, mplayer tells me that my machine is too slow to
> play videos. These are videos that fglrx had no problem playing on FC6.
>
> It may be improving, but it has a long ways to go.
>
> BTW, I have a Mobility Radeon X1600 on this laptop. Its am M56 video
> card (from the radeonhd documentation), whatever *that* means. Kinda
> tough to relate to a driver that "supports R6xx and R5xx cards". I get
> close to 2200 fps with glxgears myself.
>
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Kevin J. Cummings
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cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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