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
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