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pingufunkybeat
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| Quote: | | Does anyone know how opengl works with open source driver and Radeon 4770? |
It works fine for many things up to OpenGL 2.1, but some of the most challenging games do not work great. I don't think that ETQW works at the moment.
You can check http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonProgram for a list of games. Keep in mind that some of the info is outdated. ETQW was tested with Mesa 7.7, and lots of things were improved for HD3000+ in Mesa 7.8.
If you do give it a try, it's good to use the latest and greatest git versions. |
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shkador
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Yeah, I did try with the latest (git) mesa and xf86-video-ati from the X11 overlay, but all I got working is Warsow, ETQW fails bad. Compiz works fine though, and the overall feeling is realy nice, it feels so like nvidia binary driver I used so much to.
| Quote: | | Anyway, in this Gentoo forum thread, the subject of installing the 10.4 beta fglrx driver is discussed, and in my post here, I described in detail how I configured my kernel, xorg.conf, and installed both the 10.4 beta fglrx driver, as well as a patched xorg-server 1.8.0, (in order to work with the driver). |
Funny thing, I somehow stumbled upon this bug
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310367
It turns out that =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.721 were actually 10.4 beta driver taken off the new Ubuntu 10.04. It does work well and with stable xorg 1.7.6 (on amd64 profile) but once in a while it stops responding. Not that much of a problem but I hate being interrupted while playing.
So... at the moment I'm building kernel without framebuffer support so I can get back to fglrx, two days of no ETQW is just too much for me 
I will try 10.4 from portage as I just did eix-sync maybe it will help. |
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leo.the_zoo
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| I'm sooo happy I bought laptop with nvidia... I don't have to go through the ati-specific issues described above, everything is working like charm. I had no problems with X configuration and even some apps that were not working properly with ati and desktop effects are doing fine. My vote goes to nvidia. |
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cst
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for Linux nVidia is a lot better
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frostschutz
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| I have an ATI HD 5850, running ~amd64 Gentoo, Linux 2.6.34 and Xorg 1.8 - with no stability or performance issues whatsoever. Sure, I had to patch Xorg, but nothing you couldn't do without a little browsing on bugs.gentoo.org. Before this ATI card, I had NVIDIA. That was okay too, but for the current generation of graphics cards, ATI is quite simply the better player. |
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