On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:36:53 -0400, "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 22:51:10 -0400, >> "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> GoogleEarth and fglrx have been known in the past to have not played >>> well with each other, and GE is a pain to use without the 3D support >>> if you use the radeon driver. I have no experience with the >>> radeonhd driver yet (it also does not play well if you even have >>> fglrx installed!). In the past the combination of GE and fglrx has >>> been known to freeze X on the second invocation of GE. a Hard >>> freeze, requiring a reboot since all keyboard is lost. YMMV More >>> recently, its been better but still not without problems. >> >> The normal ati driver and mesa have been improving. I seem to be getting >> good 3D acceleration on my R530 based card (at least for glxgears) as of about >> 2 weeks ago. My understanding is that the ati driver (xorg-x11-drv-ati) >> is the way forward, not radeonhd. > > Maybe, but my experience is that its not there yet. fglrx doesn't work > on F9 (no support for Xorg 1.4.99), and before that, when Red Hat jumped > to the 2.6.25 kernel, there was no immediate support for that. I had to > find a driver in a testing repo to fix that problem. Maybe I am confused, but I thought fglrx is ATI's propietary driver. That wasn't what I was recommending. You should just get the radeon driver (from the xorg-x11-drv-ati package) by default. If you had previously installed ATI's propietary stuff, you'll probably need to some work to get rid of it. I am getting 3200 fps from glxgears with my firegl 3400 card (R530 based) using the driver I get by default. It was more like 500-600 fps when I first put F9 on the box, but a recent mesa update resulted in a big speed up. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
