[ltp] fglrx vs. radeon

[D. Sen]

Excellent. Which thinkpad? Which versions of X and radeon?

Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> Ok I got today around of a lot of my trouble.
> I switched from fglrx to radeon getting all around a unbelievable better 
> show. Better and faster rendering of h264 videos, more speed on opengl 
> (enemy territory and metin2 (wine)), working suspend 2ram and 2disk. All 
> this with kde4 effects enabled and I could unplug the powercord at any 
> moment ;)
> So it seems that there is something evil between my planar and the 
> fglrx. But this makes sure that I will never get the real reasons for 
> those troubles, because I won't do a day work to get my system back to 
> fglrx.
> 
> So I think Henrique is right there is something bad with this box (fglrx 
> works fine for others I hope), but it does something really different as 
> the xorg stuff and that seems to break my box.
> 
> Ok, for me it works with radeon, the rest, a bit they have fixed before 
> I got the box back, so my hope is that the evil ghost will sleep in a 
> dark corner of this box until I could replace it with a Calpella based one.
> 
> So my outcome is don't use fglrx it multiplies any trouble already in 
> your box.
> 
> Florian
>