New ATI driver 3.12 and xorg 6.8.0

[ByteEnable]

Alan Cox wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 05:21:03AM -0500, ByteEnable wrote:
> 
>>I have built/installed both a Fedora 6.8.0 rpm and from the src 
>>tarball's.  I cannot get 3D to work with the ATI 3.12 driver released 
>>yesterday.
>>
>>Another observation, 6.8.0 is friggin slooooowwwwwwwwwww.
> 
> 
> It works for me with the open source radeon drivers including 3D and
> its fast. If you turn on all the new composite stuff its slow at the
> moment but thats to be expected  6.8 delivers the feature but doesn't
> deliver fancy acceleration for it.
> 
> 

I've tried the drivers that came with 6.8. (Radeon) and I get screen 
artifacts to the point that its not useable (the artifacts accumulate). 
  Even when I alt-F1 to text mode.  This is on Radeon Mobility 9000.

Byte