Hi, On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 06:06:26PM +0100, leee wrote: > On Monday 10 September 2007 18:27, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > Quoting leee : > > > 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:( > > > > Maybe the situation will improve in a not so distant future : > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=828&num=1 > > > > -Fred > > Yeah, AMD/ATI hve been saying that they'll improve things for a little while > now - http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42198 (and a couple of > earlier announcments too) - but I'll wait until their reputation is > established before I'll risk buying another ATI card;) > > I noticed that the phoronix article refers to X-server and not Xorg, but > hopefully they'll include Xorg support eventually as well.
We will see... after more than 10 years of problems with ATI drivers I will I am far from believing it. We will see... Thanks for this very interesting information! Holger -- ##### #### ## ## Holger Wirtz Phone : (+49 30) 884299-40 ## ## ## ### ## DFN-Verein Fax : (+49 30) 884299-70 ## ## #### ###### Stresemannstr. 78 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## ## ## ## ### 10963 Berlin ##### ## ## ## GERMANY WWW : http://www.dfn.de GPG-Fingerprint: ABFA 1F51 DD8D 503C 85DC 0C51 E961 79E2 6685 9BCF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
