[gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

[Chris Walters]

Hello Everyone,

I have a couple of questions concerning what graphic drivers you use.  Does 
anyone use the proprietary ATI drivers, or have used them?  Would you recommend 
them?  I just recently started using the ati-drivers package, but I don't 
really notice a difference - yes it does say the frame rate is much higher, but 
I am not sure it is worth losing my framebuffer over them.

Technically, I lost my frame buffer because I am using an initramfs (initrd) 
because I have an encrypted root file system, and a separate non-encrypted usr 
partition.  I still have not been able to figure out how to get either uvesafb 
or vesafb working through the initramfs.  They will both load fine, before my 
initrd starts, then they seem to disappear.

In case you're wondering, before I changed to the proprietary ati drivers, I 
was using the kernel framebuffer for my video card(s).  Two Radeon HD 5000 
series cards.  I did have to insert the proper ucode into my kernel, but it worked.

Chris