[ltp] New ATI Driver

Florian Dorpmueller linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:15:03 +0000


>Laurent Gilson wrote:
> > What are the chances of including powerplay-support for the Radeon 7500
> > driver ? Or does the closed source now work for these too ?
> >
> > It kind of sucks to have a old product even less supported then the 
>brand
> > new ones.
>
>The ATI drivers won't work with your (and my) card. It is not supported
>by this driver and they say on their website that it won't be in the
>future.
>
>I'm sad, like you. ;-)

Hi folks,

why worrying? On my R51 with the radeon 7500 I have DRI fully enabled and 
suspend to disk and RAM working since a long time. For saving power I 
disable DRI and GLX by default and establish a new x-session when I need it.

Don't need more, do you?

Flori