[ltp] Is 3D possible on FireGL 5250?

[Michael Gaber]

you could try the radeonhd mailing list (if that's radeonhd, not -ati) 
which is at 
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd#head-107f8ec30e84804907b4af6cdb20fbdd0056eefb
hth

Bill Moseley schrieb:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:46:08PM +0100, Phil Shotton wrote:
>> I've grabbed the experimental packages Alex mentions below (see 
>> http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9951) and they seem to 
>> work fine. glxgears gives around 2,000 fps (was about 850 without 3d 
>> acceleration).
> 
> These installation instructions worked perfectly and were easy to
> complete.  I get about 2400 in glxgears.  (I think I was getting a
> higher number with the old ATI fglrx driver.)
> 
> But, I can't complain with working 3D, mplayer working, and it even
> sleeps.  Bravo!
> 
> 
>> Haven't tried compiz or anything, but general use everything feels just 
>> a bit snappier. Suspend to ram works fine, but only if I undock first 
>> (this was also a problem with earlier driver and is probably nothing to 
>> do with the video drivers).
> 
> Yes Compiz doesn't work.  Is that because no AIGLX or Xgl?
> Compiz was nice eyecandy (and always fun to demo right after the
> Leopard showed off their cool eyecandy).
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1) Is there a list where I can follow development of the driver?
> Interested to know when I should update again.
> 
> 
> 2) Can anyone point me to a page that explains the components I just
> installled? ;)  There seems to be a number of drivers and modules
> working together and I'm not sure what they all do....
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
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