Nick Lidakis wrote:
812 FPS!! I get about 780fps with that PBuffer GLXGears thing (fgl_glxgears, right?). And I have a FireGL X1 (allegedly r300 core -- Radeon 9700?)!! Which card did you say you had? :PHarshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote:I followed you advice, and aside from changing one line in the make sh to point to kernel-source-2.4.21, I got it up an running in 10 mins.I was able to accomplish this by following ATI's well-enough written HOWTO (it is the "Release Notes" link). Their driver is compatible with the newer version of libc in unstable. I am currently running this setup right now. Just use their Xfree4.2.x and libc driver version and you will be fine.Of course you have already done this last time with your 8500, but for other's convenience, be aware that you need to compile your own kernel (I did mine from debian sources and using make-kpkg). Just follow ATI's readme (Release Notes) and substitute the make-kpkg step at the end. You might have to re-run their make-install.sh script from /lib/modules/fglrx later.But to summarize it all, it IS definetly possible to get the proprietary driver working on debian.Actaully, I have encountered this question many times (most recently on slashdot). I am thinking about doing a HOWTO on this.. maybe help others who are in the situation I was in about 1 month ago.Hope it helps,The endgame screensaver, with animation speed turned up to max, gives me 180 FPS. It used to make my original Radeon 64mb VIVO crawl at 1FPS with 3d enabled. 812 FPS with ATI's PBuffer GLXGears with this setup. :)
Hey and I can finally play stuff like America's Army and that free Wolfenstein game on linux.
I wonder if open source drivers would give even better results (since AA:O seems to be faster in windows, but that may be a Unreal engine porting issue?). Does ATI give out enough specs for our opensource DRI 1337s (no offense, I really mean it with respect) to make one?
If these drivers work, why the ATI warnings and "please use this Check.sh"? Seems like it would turn linux customers away.
Actually if you look in their "Release Notes" (I know I'm being repetitive, but thats the best way to describe it) which is above the link to download the actual driver rpm.
They seem to have been updating it too. Since I used it last time by asking on this list about libc2.2 and libc2.3 compatibility. And this list almost always has the answers due to all the smart people here, so they said its compatible, I beleived and went through and it worked.
In the release notes, it says not to worry since libc2.3 IS compatible with their driver. They also say that Xfree4.3 works. I think thats cool of ATI to say that. Only maybe in a more visible place???
-- Harshwardhan Nagaonkar Electrical Engineering Sysop Brigham Young University, UT-84602