[ltp] Radeon PCI works, but damn slow

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 13:00:20 +0100, henry ritzlmayr wrote:
> Am Don, den 08.01.2004 schrieb André Wyrwa um 13:49:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > try calling "glxgears -info" and take a look at wich card is
> > > beeing used. As you have your ati-card on screen 1 you may also
> > > try glxgears with "-display"
> > 
> > glxgears -info output:
> > 
> > GL_RENDERER   = Mesa DRI R200 20030328 x86/MMX/SSE TCL
> > GL_VERSION    = 1.3 Mesa 5.0.2
> > GL_VENDOR     = Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
> 
> looks like you are not using the ati-driver. Any reason for this? I'm

Because it's buggy and binary only? It doesn't work on my desktop
machine (nforce2, radeon 9600) using kernel 2.6 (no hardware 3d because
of AGP problems), but introduced garbled colours after switching from
console to X. XV is not supported by the fglrx driver. You have to use
e.g. mplayer -vo gl to get hardware accelerated video playback.

Well, 2.6.1-rc2 seems to fix some nforce-AGP stuff, maybe hardware 3d
will work now. However, I much prefer open source drivers, at least
after the experiences with nvidia and ATI drivers.

Regards,
Tino