ATI driver support

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Aldert E. van der Laan wrote:

> Just wondering, what is better in those drivers?
> 
> When I choose the ATi9200 drivers with FC1 and add the option AGPMode 4
> in the config, what more do the binary drivers give me from ATI?  

At least for me (Radeon 9100) the binary drivers make FlightGear and some 
other 3D games playable - there's a difference of night and day in 
performance. Native XFree86 driver gives me like 2.5fps on FlightGear, 
with the binary driver it's > 25 (don't remember exactly). 

Really I hate to use any binary drivers but it's almost worth the pain 
here...

> Isn't it a fact that after installing these drivers I can no longer
> update XFree86 if there are new releases without uninstalling this
> driver first?

Um, no, you can update XFree86 with the drivers installed but some amount 
of additional twiddling is necessary if updating XFree86 or kernel.

	 - Panu -