ati-fglrx 8.29.6 Notice!

Cerebral · 2006-10-02 05:59:06

Please note that with version 8.29.6 of ATI's binary drivers, support for Radeon 9000, 9100, and 9200 IGP and Mobility chipsets, and Radeon 8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, and 9250 has been dropped.

For users of any of these chipsets, you will not be able to use ati-fglrx >= 8.29.6 for your cards anymore. I suggest you look into the OSS drivers that ship with xorg by installing the xf86-video-ati and libgl-dri packages, and using the 'radeon' driver in your Xorg.conf.

Otherwise, you can set pacman to ignore ati-fglrx, however unless you build your own 8.28 fglrx packages, this will cease working after a kernel upgrade > 2.6.18.

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projektdotnet · 2006-10-06 05:03:13

Thanks for the heads-up. I have a Radeon 9200...starting to look at Nvidia at this point

pix · 2006-10-06 07:08:55

Thanks for the heads-up. I have a Radeon 9200...starting to look at Nvidia at this point

Send me your 9200 if you don't want it anymore :-)
my 9700 is working *perfectly* with OSS radeon drivers. No need to switch to nvidia.

projektdotnet · 2006-10-06 18:03:53

Nah i can still get 1600x1200 great on the radeon driver...problem is that I need direct rendering for gaming Since I didn't see this post ahead of time I had already upgraded and had to go back to OSS drivers

alcazoid · 2006-10-07 09:14:16

Are there any plans to support something like "ati-fglrx-legacy"???

iphitus · 2006-10-07 11:12:46

alcazoid wrote:

Are there any plans to support something like "ati-fglrx-legacy"???

not that I know of. nvidia maintain their legacy drivers so they work on older kernels, ATi do not do that.

From what I understand, all the devices which have had support removed have open source support, but of course, that doesnt stretch to TV out and stuff.

James

Bralkein · 2006-10-08 19:02:26

What? I'm sure you can get direct rendering on a Radeon 9200! I thought that card has had DRI support for ages!? I always thought that support for Radeon 9250 and less was fine, since they use the R200 GPU, whereas newer Radeons than this use a R300-type GPU, which has only recently got DRI support.

Maybe you have to change some things in the Xorg.conf file in order to make direct rendering work, but I wouldn't give up on the Radeon yet!

Cerebral · 2006-10-09 19:46:16

Bralkein wrote:

What? I'm sure you can get direct rendering on a Radeon 9200! I thought that card has had DRI support for ages!? I always thought that support for Radeon 9250 and less was fine, since they use the R200 GPU, whereas newer Radeons than this use a R300-type GPU, which has only recently got DRI support.
Maybe you have to change some things in the Xorg.conf file in order to make direct rendering work, but I wouldn't give up on the Radeon yet!

Are you talking about the OSS radeon drivers? If so, that's exactly what I suggested users of 9250 and down use.

JGC · 2006-10-09 22:47:11

I switched from fglrx to xf86-video-ati for the Radeon X550SE PCI-Express I have in the machine at work today. 2D works fine, DRI works fine, XV works fine, MergedFB works fine, performance in 2D is fine, but performance in 3D lacks a little bit behind my Radeon 8500LE AGP I have at home.

projektdotnet · 2006-10-12 06:14:48

so how do you get decent 3D support with OSS drivers. I could never get the direct rendering (as it appears with FGLRX) to work. Any wiki/tutorials?

Sigi · 2006-10-12 06:20:49

HowTo

projektdotnet · 2006-10-15 05:35:38

thanks

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