ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M driver ++ F7 Can't getitto work.

sizo nsibande ooziss at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 08:24:44 UTC 2007


> dream.  If I run a program that uses OpenGL period, X literally blows up.

I think this was a figure of speech Frank, and I dare say I am not the
brightest of people.

> Yes, ATI cards suck as far as Linux goes.  If you REALLY want to try, though,

As much as this might be true, I have not much of a choice because the
laptop in question is one that was handed to me from my workplace and
all I want is some 3d so I can do my work and enjoy it whilst I'm at
it, thanks for the advice, I will try the Radeon drivers, although I
would like to know, which ones you recommend for my particular
chipset?

On 21/06/07, Kelly <lightsolphoenix at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had the proprietary driver running in Fedora once, but I got rid of it for a
> number of good reasons, probably the most obvious of which is that my card is
> no longer supported, so I have to use the radeon driver.
>
> Yes, ATI cards suck as far as Linux goes.  If you REALLY want to try, though,
> I suggest using Livna and installing the RPM's for the proprietary drivers.
> I can't help you any more than that, though, because as I said, I don't use
> it anymore.
>
> Oh, BTW, you can get 3D from the radeon driver (in fact, I'd say the radeon
> driver gives better 3D than the proprietary driver on most ATI cards,
> considering I can run AIGLX on radeon and not on fglrx);  you just don't get
> direct rendering.  But if you're using AIGLX, you don't get direct rendering
> anyway, and really it doesn't improve performance much.
>
> If you want a BAD card, try the SiS in my laptop.  No DRI at all, so 3D is a
> dream.  If I run a program that uses OpenGL period, X literally blows up.
> --
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>


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