On 12/18/06, Tim Howard <tdhoward@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/18/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now, why do you need the ATI driver vs. just using the Xorg radeon > driver in the kernel? What are you doing that requires either 3D > accelleration, which may or may not not work with that version of the > 9200 anyway, or composite/SVideo outputs. Those are the only reasons I > know to use the ATI driver. Well, once upon a time I had a SuSE installation on this very machine, and hardware 3D acceleration did not work at all. (software rendering) But when I installed the binary drivers, it worked quite well. I have since heard that for various reasons, that's not so good. So when I did this FC5 install, I found that the 3D acceleration was not up to par with what I had before, and I assumed that FC5 didn't come with the drivers for my card. But I'm finding out that maybe they do, and I'm still not quite getting the acceleration that I'm used to.
Granted. 3D accel works better in fglrx than radeon. No question about that. The question I have is what are you doing on a Linux music box that requires it? I decided not to do any of those things on this Linux box and just stock with the radeon driver from xorg so that I didn't have to deal with any of this. Have fun, Mark
> mark@lightning ~ $ lsmod | grep radeon > radeon 109600 2 > drm 73448 3 radeon > mark@lightning ~ $ > I'll run that command when I get home, and see what it says... Thanks, -TimH
