Flickering video with ATI Radeon and KDE

[James Kosin]

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Robin Laing wrote:

| James Kosin wrote:
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|> Scott Talbot wrote:
|> |     Hello all:
|> |
|> | I've been using Gnome since I installed FC1, several months ago, and
|> | didn't realize until now that screensavers, especially those using 3D
|> | graphics, flicker annoyingly, at a rate which seems affected by the
|> | refresh rate.
|> |
|> | /sbin/lspci shows:
|> |
|> | 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD
|> | [Radeon 7200] (rev 01)
|> |
|> | X11/xfree86config:
|> |
|> | Section "Device"
|> |         Identifier  "Videocard0"
|> |         Driver      "radeon"
|> |         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
|> |         BoardName   "ATI Radeon 7200"
|> | EndSection
|> |
|> |     I tried changing driver to ati, without any change.
|> | glxgears runs with the results  4368 frames in 5.0 seconds = 873.600
|> FPS
|> | which is comparable to the numbers I get with Gnome.
|> |
|> | I'm out of ideas -- any help?
|> |
|> | Scott
|> |
|> |
|> Scott,
|>
|> Get in line...  Currently, there is no support for 3D graphics for the
|> ATI drivers.  They have experimental drivers out there if you may be
|> interested.  ATI & NVIDIA cards both have problems with Linux in
|> general.  I always have to tweak the configuration manually to get the
|> drivers for my ATI card to work and many users of NVIDIA have to build
|> new drivers every time the kernel changes.
|> Maybe one day I'll be able to install Linux (any flavor) and get a
|> working graphical boot the first time.
|> Until someone finishes 3D support for the ATI chipset, we just have to
|> wait or try one of the experimental drivers out there.
|>
|> Wish it where better news,
|> James
|>
|
| I dumped my ATI card (9600) for a NVidia after fighting for a month. The
| recompiling the NVidea drivers with each kernel upgrade is minor
| compared to the missing 3D graphics and associated problems. (lack of
| game support :) )
|
| ATI's own software does NOT support 3d and I didn't find this out until
| after I purchased the card. :(
|
Robin Laing,

You have to check out ATI's site.  They say their drivers do support
3D...  Just not opensource due to proprietary disclosure agreements
limit them from releasing the information as opensource.

Thanks,
James

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