ati radeon 3650 of w500 should use fglrx or open source ?

waterloo2005 · Apprentice Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 271

Should ati radeon 3650 of w500 use fglrx or open source driver?

I use fglrx. my gentoo often hangs in gnome-light. I don't know if it have something with fglrx.

thanks
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meadow · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:20 am Post subject:

If you experience problems with fglrx I'd suggest to use the open source driver. AMD has published the specifications for its grapic cards, so the FOSS driver will improve quickly.

E001754 · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:31 am Post subject:

If you wanna play 3D games, you can't avoid fglrx.
If you just stick with video playback and 2D desktop, then go for open-source drivers. They get better all the time and are in a sufficient state for this purpose.
If your 3650 card is using a chip codename RV500 or less, then you have to stick with fglrx 9.3, since ATI dropped support for <=R500 on fglrx>=9.4.
However, for RV500 or older cards, I believe the open-source stack is rather good, and even goes 3D.
I've read somewhere, that the most powerfull card fully supported by open-source stack is the Radeon X1950X. Newer cards are more or less supported on 3D.

You can also check www.phoronix.com, where is posted since today an article about performance between open-source and fglrx.

Is your 3650 a PCI or an AGP card ?

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5909