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    How are the new ATI drivers?

    I've been using nVidia cards, but I noticed that ATI released new video drivers for linux that are supposedly much closer to their Windows drivers than before. Has anyone here with an ATI card tried the new drivers. Are they as easy to install and use as nVidia's? Should nVidia still be considered the linux video card by default only because of driver support?

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    Still a pain to install. Nvidia drivers are still a lot better. Ati drivers are only pacakged for Red Hat based distros. I was able to find a website that has it package for debian but I still had to unpack the rpm to get the module (I couldn't get it to compile).

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    I am running SuSE 9.3 and I find it great, I have very smooth graphics. Was a litle bit complex to install the driver, but then I have had issues installing nVidia drivers on one or two machines as well...
    Feel free to PM me for help

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    they are good
    I did not have any problems

    Code:
    fglrxinfo
    display: :0.0  screen: 0
    OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
    OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON X600 Generic
    OpenGL version string: 1.3.5140 (X4.3.0-8.14.13)
    Code:
     fglrxinfo
    display: :0.0  screen: 0
    OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
    OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 XT Generic
    OpenGL version string: 1.3.5140 (X4.3.0-8.14.13)
    
    
    
    display: :0.0  screen: 1
    OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
    OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 XT Generic
    OpenGL version string: 1.3.5140 (X4.3.0-8.14.13)
    Last edited by DimGR; 06-23-2005 at 08:58 AM.
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    i think its still a pain, but its getting better
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    Quote Originally Posted by zeke676
    i think its still a pain, but its getting better

    you think wrong. It's not a pain at all.
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    how are they not a pain getting 3d acceleration to work right?
    -zeke-

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    why should it be a pain?

    it was a pain untill 10 monthes ago or so . I did not have problems getting 3d accel to work since that time. Other than a little X bug that its now fixed my 9600 XT powers a dual monitor set up and gives me 95fps average when playing UT2004
    Mobility X600 works good too -- no problems.

    Code:
    
     fglrxinfo
    display: :0.0  screen: 0
    OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
    OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 XT Generic
    OpenGL version string: 1.3.5140 (X4.3.0-8.14.13)
    
    
    
    display: :0.0  screen: 1
    OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
    OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 XT Generic
    OpenGL version string: 1.3.5140 (X4.3.0-8.14.13)
    
    
    
     fglrxinfo
    display: :0.0  screen: 0
    OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
    OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON X600 Generic
    OpenGL version string: 1.3.5140 (X4.3.0-8.14.13)
    
    
    
    
    X600   Core: 398.25 MHz, Mem: 263.25 MHz
    
    9600 XT  Core: 249.75 MHz, Mem: 297.0 MHz
    Last edited by DimGR; 06-30-2005 at 11:53 AM.
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    well it doesnt work to well for me -=<
    ive used theyre new setup program, installs just fine, when i issue fglrxinfo it sees my card, but no 3d acc supported when i try to run a game, ive tried enabling agpgart and run tuxracer and my screen goes black or it locks up.
    -zeke-

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    What card do you have? Is it even supported by the drivers?

    what does "modprobe fglrx" do, errors? Anything from dmesg about the driver?

    Do you have MTRR enabled in the kernel?

    Complaining for the sake of complaining won't get it working

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    running "modprobe fglrx" gives me no errors, MTRR is enabled in the kernel and dmesg doesnt show up with anything.

    oo and yes my card is supported its a 9600 pro radeon.
    -zeke-

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    ooo and forgot to mention running glxinfo it says direct rendering is enabled, and running fglrxinfo i get :

    OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
    OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 Generic
    OpenGL version string: 1.3.5140 (X4.3.0-8.14.13)


    running glxgears gives me 1000-3500 fps but in about a minute or so my computer will lock up.
    and when looking at /var/log/XFree86.0.log i get:



    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
    (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
    (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
    (WW) fglrx(0): Cannot read colourmap from VGA. Will restore with default
    -zeke-

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    Wow....

    ATI Radeon 9800

    debian 2.6.8 kernel...

    downloaded ati-driver.xxxx

    chmod +x

    ran it...

    next next next

    exited X

    ran /usr/X11R6/bin/fglrxconfig, answered some questions (mostly defaults)

    had to fix my XF86Config for my mouse but now:

    fglrxinfo:
    display: :0.0 screen: 0
    OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
    OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9800 Pro Generic
    OpenGL version string: 1.3.5140 (X4.3.0-8.14.13)

    2068 frames in 5.0 seconds = 413.600 FPS
    3058 frames in 5.0 seconds = 611.600 FPS
    3926 frames in 5.0 seconds = 785.200 FPS
    3186 frames in 5.0 seconds = 637.200 FPS
    3424 frames in 5.0 seconds = 684.800 FPS


    I'm guessing those are good numbers as someone else posted 95fps.

    Im impressed with ATI's attention to open source..

    TIme to test out AA now!!!

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    95fps when playing a game , not in glxgears

    glxgears is just there to tell you if you got 3d accel or not...

    your scores are super low...


    mobility X600 results
    18686 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3737.200 FPS
    18683 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3736.600 FPS
    18682 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3736.400 FPS


    download the ut2004 demo and do a time demo test
    see what you get
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    Quote Originally Posted by happybunny
    downloaded ati-driver.xxxx
    chmod +x
    ran it...
    next next next
    exited X
    ran /usr/X11R6/bin/fglrxconfig, answered some questions (mostly defaults)
    had to fix my XF86Config for my mouse
    Did you get the ati-driver-installer, or the RPM? My assumption is you ran the installer.

    Just downloaded the installer (and RPM just in case) and am fixing to run the installer on my Slackware 10.1 system. Will let yall know how it goes.

    Later,
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