Re: Radeon 7000 GLX
On Monday 05 May 2003 10:49 pm, Richard Fillion wrote:
> I replaced my Matrox Millenium card with an ATi Radeon 7000 64Meg DDR
> PCI card tonight, and 2D is much much nicer now. But, i'm having a hell
> of a time getting 3D rendering to work. I compiled the kernel with
> DRM/DRI stuff, and the radeon driver, and i compiled XF4.3 on my box,
> but now all i have is software rendering and an unstable X server. So i
> went back to 4.1 for now. Am I doing something wrong? Is the card the
> problem?
>
> XFree86 4.3 was very unstable for the Matrox card aswell, is 4.3
> something we should avoid? Am I the only one having problems with it?
> 4.1 with the matrox card was ROCK stable, and so far with the radeon
> driver it hasnt crashed once.
>
Your card is fine. You have discovered a regression in the 4.3 driver. We
have seen this problem as well. We currently have a work around but it is
very ugly. I wouls suggest that you stick with 4.1 for the time being.
Best Regards,
--George
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