[ltp] ati fireGL 9000

[Lukas Kraehenbuehl]

i'm using mandrake 9.2rc1, their Xfree version has 3d support built-in (only 
tested with glxgears and tuxracer, both working)
i just installed ati's driver, it works after a reboot and recognises the card 
as firegl 9000. tuxracer works, i will test quake3 or rtcw et soon.
if you want to install ati's driver, first backup your XFree86Config because 
it will be overwritten with fglrxconfig's. you must use --force because it 
will overwrite some parts of your XFree installation.

there's this warning in readme
23. Laptop
     Suspend / Resume
     Suspending while X is running may cause a system crash. Before suspending
     (i.e. closing the lid or pressing [Fn] + [F4]) please end the X server.

on my desktop computer (ati radeon 9500), ati's driver works, performance is 
not very good, rtcw et is working, and if you switch between console and X, 
screen is broken sometimes. 

good luck
lukas

On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:32, Tim Rademacher wrote:
> Hey Lukas,
>
> so you are using the ATI FireGL 9000 with the binary ATI-driver? and it
> works good?
>
> Thank you
>
> Tim
>
> > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:26, Glyn Kennington wrote:
> > > William R Sherman wrote:
> > > > I've had a few people recommend against the
> > > > ATI graphics for Linux
> > >
> > > I suspect the reason these people are recommending against ATI graphics
> > > for Linux is that ATI recently started doing binary-only drivers,
> > > rather than releasing the full specs.  However, nvidia have been
> > > releasing binary-only drivers for much longer.
> > >
> > > Glyn
> >
> > in fact, ati's cards are the best supported graphic cards for linux.
> > there is
> > now 3d support available from two drivers, DRI and ati's fglrx.
> >
> > lukas