Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 the mental interface of
Jonathan Kaye told:

> Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 the mental interface of
> > Davide Mancusi told:
> > 
> >> 2007/11/1, Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es>:
> >> > 1. What's your card - I'm running ATI Radeon 9550
> >> 
> >> It's a Radeon 9600 Pro.
> > 
> > Why don't you use the r300 driver from Xorg?
> > 
> > Elimar
> > 
> I don't think it supports 3D acceleration. The proprietary driver does.
> If you know differently, I'd like to hear about it.

The r300 Xorg driver supports 3D acceleration very well! On my
Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 glxgears runs 1600 fps in windowmode and
around 250 fps in fullscreen mode. The diver supports ATI's up to
the X850 which is AFAIR rv480? [0] No tainted kernel;) Just
OpenSource;)

Elimar

[0] http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon#head-3ddc08075f8272e94cf5759e751db61f720bcbb1

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