[ltp] Re: Linux-Thinkpad digest, Vol 1 #2491 - 6 msgs

[portsample]

That is what I am limping along now with: windows jump-jump-jump when
drug across the screen, fonts and other graphics are nor rendered
properly or in a timely manner.

It appears that ATI has released a beta of the next version of Catalyst
(9.12) for windows OS...hopefully a Linux version will not be far
behind.


> Sorry to jump late into the discussion, but have you tried the open
> source radeon driver (the "radeon", not the "radeonhd").
> My previous computer had a Mobility 9700 and the open source driver
> gave me the same 3d performance for more stability, with similar
> looking dual head image quality.
> 
> PedroO
> n Sat, 2009-11-21 at 21:55 +0000, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:36 PM, portsample <portsample@blepsias.net> wrote:
> > The crux of my problem is that ATI has not released a driver that will
> > work w/out massive Rube Goldberg-ing with the ATI hardware in my T60 and
> > the new SuSE 11.2. Their current driver installer is here:
> >
> > http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.15&lang=English
> >
> > There is also dialog regarding this problem in the openSuse forum, in
> > the laptop subforum.
> >
> > I'll post again when I have resolution to this problem. Cheers.
> >
> >