On Monday 10 September 2007 08:42, Holger Wirtz wrote: > LeeE, > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:00:50PM +0100, leee wrote: > [...] > > > Since moving to Debian etch (stable) on all of my systems, for the first > > time I seem to have a stable and working driver for my old 9200 based > > video card in the form of the current Debian (stable) Xorg drivers. > > For older cards the ATI drivers should working - but newer ones seem to > have several problems. But I cannot change my video card in the notebook > so I have to deal with worse drivers :-( > > > I haven't tried FG with it yet as I haven't got around to building FG > > since I installed etch but my 3D package now runs in OGL on it:) > > Some test software works as well with the current ATI driver... but fgfs > (OSG?) seems so touch something inside the driver that causes to fail > starting up FG. It seems to be around the kernel driver fgrlx.ko and the > libmesa-dri. > > > I thought I'd try the DAAMIT proprietary driver, to see if they gave any > > improvement but couldn't get them to install - lol. Heh - and then I had > > to manually reset a couple of re-directions installed by the DAAMIT > > driver to get the Xorg ones to install correctly after I used the DAAMIT > > uninstall procedure to remove it. > > Ok - I won't touch this driver... > > > However, I've been reading some reports recently that suggest that > > DAAMIT's OGL support is set to improve soon, but I'll wait and see. > > I cannot find anything official about DAAMIT or driver downloads. Do you > have a link? > > > In the mean time, you could try the Xorg drivers. > > Hmmm, they won't work... That's _really_ frusttrating... > > Regards, Holger
Sorry - I should have made it clear that when I was referring to DAAMIT I meant AMD+ATI and was reflecting on the quality of the drivers. Nvidia doesn't seem to have problems producing OGL drivers but ATI's apparent inability to do the same is _very_frustrating:( I just had a look at the Xorg support for ATI cards and it looks as though the current beta/next release will only support R300/400 based cards, which "...are not well supported for 3D", and I _think_ your X1400 may be R500 based:( If that's the case then it looks like you will have no choice but to wait for AMD/ATI to get their act together:( LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
