Am Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:48:59 +0200
schrieb Arnt Karlsen <a...@c2i.net>:

> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:37:27 +0200, Alex wrote in message 
> <20110622133727.6a7007df@main>:
> 
> > Am Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:20:17 +0200
> > schrieb Arnt Karlsen <a...@c2i.net>:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:42:41 +0200, Alex wrote in message 
> > > <20110621234241.5daf0f9e@main>:
> > > 
> > > > I am using system:
> > > > Linux 2.6.39.1 #2 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux Debian Stable/Squeeze
> > > > ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]
> > > 
> > > ..a laptop?
> > no
> > 
> > > > Driver: fglrx, mostly latest version, 11.6 atm (11.1/11.2 during
> > > > testing, IIRC)
> > > 
> > > ..try the radeon driver, it should support your graphics card 
> > > better by now.  
> > > It may also expose other bugs you haven't seen yet, 
> > > exactly because you have been using fglrx.
> > What is your point? 
> 
> ..the radeon and radeonhd drivers are both in development 
> just like FG and may do now what they did not do the last 
> time you tried them, my guess is the radeon driver on your 
> card, should beat both fglrx and radeonhd, so come on and 
> prove me wrong. ;o)
> 
> > How is that related to the versions of the
> > dependencies of SG/FG?
> 
> ..I'm talking about the "ATI" bugs that none of the Nvidea 
> owner FG developers could see, and that I suspect is part 
> driver, part OSG, part SG and part FG.  
> 
> ..trying another driver with everything else left as is, 
> gives us all a new observation.  (I haven't been able to 
> do that myself due to RL issues such as housing.)
> 
> ..I _have_ seen improvements since I filed bug #264, but there 
> are also #295 and maybe #320, my #264 and #295 may be related 
> to #96. 
> 
> ..whenever OSG, SG or FG demands something that the hardware 
> cannot support, the driver should reject that demand and tell 
> us a little more than:
> "r300: ERROR: FS input generic 17 unassigned, not enough hardware
> slots." so I can try _educated_ guesses.

Ahh, I see. You're suggesting to use radeon/hd driver to find bugs so
the drivers/osg/sg/fg could be improved?

However, back to the topic: at the moment, what version of osg do you
recommend for systems using the radeon/hd drivers?


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