On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:40:10 +0000 Paul Worrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3d opengl hardware acceleration does not work with the radeon driver in > xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4. Bug 82897 suggests this is fixed in xorg-x11-6.8.2. I > maintain a stable system because I don't want to spend time diagnosing > problems with it, but when 6.8.0-r4 was marked stable and I did an emerge > update, my system stopped working in this respect. Is it Gentoo policy to > mark as 'stable' packages that do not work as well as the previous version? > That could well be a configuration issue. Are you mixing up "fglrx" and "radeon" drivers and libraries. The open source solution works fine for me with xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 and radeon 8500, the proprietary solution worked as it always did (i.e. OpenGL is fine, but some drawing bugs in 2d mode.) Regards -- [email protected] mailing list
