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Hey guys, can you go fully XGL with a Ati Radeon Mobility 9000 with 64MB of VRAM? I know that the Xorg driver r200 doesn't work with XGL, but I was wondering if ATI's drivers will work. What are the minimum requirements for XGL on ATi cards (with the ATi drivers)?
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It's not very clear but it seems there are DRI drivers for Radeon 9000 cards.
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon
So you could try even with the free drivers.
OTOH I've successfully run XGL on a intel integrated 865 and 900 chipsets and it worked.. a bit slow on the 865... but almost acceptable on the 900 (and it was from a live CD on a laptop).
I think your Radeon should be fine.
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i've got a 7500 (almost identical to 9000), and it's too slow to be usable, even with just xgl and no compiz (not that that gives you anything, just as a test)
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>So you could try even with the free drivers.
No, as I said above the r200 don't work. SLED 10 doesn't let me go XGL at all for example, it says that it doesn't support that gfx card. I had enabled XGL manually on my Arch box a year ago, and it was indeed too slow.
This is why I ask if the Ati's specific drivers work better. I need to know before I make the step to use ATi's proprietary drivers...
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why don't you try kororaa xgl livecd first?
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I just tried that LiveCD, and I indeed got what a gentoo wiki was describing for the 9000 line of cards: problems. XGL doesn't work properly with my card (fuzzy screen), no matter which one of the two drivers you use. This seems to be a bug on XGL though... Where could I file a bug report for that? Fdo or Novell, or somewhere else?
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I tried the livecd on my desktop that has an ati x100 rv370 card (128 MB), the livecd would load the ati drivers with Xorg, and then i would get a black screen and nothing else.
This XGL business suck. The thing just doesn't work properly yet.
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The R200 series have a problem with 3D visuals bigger than 2048x2048 (my dual screen setup is larger than that, 2560 is higher than 2048).
I tried getting AIGLX working on a Radeon 8500LE, which is in fact a faster version of the 9000. With single screen it worked, with dual it didn't due to the problem above. I only got metacity with the opengl compositor working, compiz didn't work, but that was back in the Xorg 7.1 RC1 days, could be that compiz works with AIGLX now.
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My screen is 1400x1050 for the r200 Radeon 9000 Mobility in my laptop.
But for my X100 128 MB card on my desktop PC that I also tried, I indeed have a dual screen (1280x1024 and 1200x1600).
Nevertheless, none of the two worked. The author sent me some pointers to modify the xorg.conf file manually and add some directives but I haven't try them. I will wait for 1-2 years before I retry XGL. I like stuff to work out of the box.
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