I've tried the open source radeon drivers before trying the proprietary fglrx drivers, and it was significantly slower than the proprietary ones for 3d stuff (more or less the same as the performance I'm currently experiencing on the other vts). But the radeon driver does not support TV-Out, which I need. Do the DRM drivers have TV-Out support?
Cheers, and thanks,
Ezequiel Tolnay
Ryan wrote:
If you use control-alt-insert, you can open a new session with the same properties as your existing X session. This will also include 3D support. Well, at least it does for me and I run an ATI 8500, but I dont use the propriatary trash that ATI spews out. It has 5% of the features that it should. The DRM drivers are light years ahead of ATI's own driver. I use the DRM drivers instead.
Ezequiel Tolnay wrote:
Hi, I don't seem to have hardware acceleration for OpenGL on any virtual terminals other than the initial one (vt7). Is this the way it is supposed to be? Also, the 2D acceleration on vts other than vt7 don't seem to be as fast as the vt7, although I do have TV-Out.
I'm using an ATI Radeon 9200 Pro using the proprietary drivers media-video/ati-drivers-8.12.10 and kdm/kde-3.4 to create the new virtual terminals.
TIA,
Ezequiel Tolnay
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