will we ever have radeon drivers that aren't crap?

[Bill Davidsen]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Andras Simon wrote:
> 
>> On 7/24/09, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>   at this point, i have to agree.  i've been on fedora for several
>>> releases but if i can't get minimally functional video drivers
>>> that don't lock up my desktop every 15-30 minutes, it's time to
>>> move on and find something that works.  life is too short to spend
>>> hours messing with this and reporting to bugzilla only for nothing
>>> to happen.
>> I understand your frustration, but: are these Fedora or X problems?
>> If the latter, then I wonder what "moving on" could mean...
> 
>   i *was* going to add something to that effect to my previous note.
> are other distros having exactly the same frustrations?  friends of
> mine who run debian or ubuntu seem to be happy, so maybe i'll ask them
> what they're doing.
> 
>   i'm not asking for much -- i don't need 3D or blazing speed.  i just
> want my native 1280x800 screen resolution.  i don't think that's
> being unreasonable.
> 
Rob, I don't know what to tell you, that's just what I get on my Acer laptop 
with ATI graphics, tried the vendor driver for FC10, didn't seem to make any 
difference for what I do. FC11 installed, uses the radeondrm and just works. I 
can't say I've had a hang since about a week after the official release, and I 
was diddling X and such trying to get speed up a bit (8x slower than FC10).

I did notice that display of full screen HDTV with vlc occasionally had a bit of 
pixelize, but zero hangs or serious glitches. My real HDTV gets them once in a 
while, thanks to my cable provider.

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