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#1 2006-09-21 08:35:42
- Back2Cali
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ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.29.6
The new ATI drivers are out.
Be aware that people using Radeon cards < 9500 should stay with version 8.28.8 as it is mentioned on the ati website.
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#2 2006-09-22 15:32:36
- Cerebral
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Re: ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.29.6
Just to follow up on the fact that old cards are being dropped support-wise:
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#3 2006-09-22 15:37:02
- brain0
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Re: ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.29.6
The old cards should all be supported by the open source radeon drivers.
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#4 2006-09-23 13:16:21
- JGC
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Re: ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.29.6
R200 series didn't work correctly at all with the latest few driver releases, so it's quite logic to get those off the "known problems" list in this way. The R200 series are damn old these days and are fully supported by the opensource drivers, just like the R100 series that were dropped before.
I wouldn't even recommend fglrx with Xorg 7.1 for the older ATI cards, the opensource drivers work so much better.
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#5 2006-09-23 13:59:58
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Re: ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.29.6
Typical of ATI... they couldn't fix the problems plaguing the last few releases for R200 cards, so they dropped support...
Either way, the Xorg opensource drivers are almost identical in performance (17xxFPS in glxgears versus 1900 for the proprietary ones) and they don't lock the box every 10 minutes
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#6 2006-09-23 20:21:05
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Re: ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.29.6
It looks like the open source ATi drivers have come a long way since I last tried them (over one year ago) in terms of both 2D and 3D performance. I'm glad to see the project doing well.
What features, if any, are missing from the open source drivers? What about stuff like XvMC?
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#7 2006-09-25 00:11:01
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Re: ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.29.6
random system hangups are missing 
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