M Harris wrote: > On Wednesday 23 May 2007 17:53, Jim Flanagan wrote: > >> I'm starting to think this card is not very well >> supported, by neither ATI nor xorg. I could try my older Radeon 9200 , >> oops, sorry, it a 9000 with 64mb ram. >> > Yeah, I am getting mixed signals from folks regarding these same > cards... > some folks are saying that the out-of-box drivers are giving 3D results... > while others cannot get the card to work at all without the proprietary > driver... so, I'm wondering about the firmware on the card... anyway, I think > I'm done with ATI until they make some significant improvements... both open > source wise, and hardware wise. > > > > Well, I finally wimped out, re-installed the whole install. There were too many dependencies uninstalling KDE and related stuff. Got tired of doing that. Anyways, all is working mostly fine now.
I did take out the radeon 9800 pro card and put in the older 9000. Sax2 did let me check the 3D box on tis card (not greyed out). Without 3D it was getting about 315 fps in glxgears. With 3D it is now getting about 1650 fps or a little better. (Under my old 9.3 install it got about 1550 fps). Don't know if this is good for this card or not. This card is more limited than the 9800, but the 9000 is working faster now than the 9800 did previously. (The 9000 would not run the install dvd at any resolution over 1024x768). One thing I have noticed on this install and previous ones, once every so often glxgears seems to almost stop, or hang for a moment or two, then back to normal. I don't' know if this is normal or not, but it has been occurring for me on several installs, on this box anyway. (I notice the same thing on my Tivo menus, not TV video). In the past I have assumed this was due to me running the base video drivers and not the ATI drivers. But at this point I dunno, and I'm not going to try to install the ATI drivers again, at least until they update them, and I see others having overall good success. Or I get a different brand video card, which ever happens first! Thanks to all for the good help. Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
