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bushwakko
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 Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 2:28 pm Post subject: different ati-drivers |
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Can somebody give me a thurough walkthrough of the different ATI drivers out there? the xfree-drm driver (newest CVS), the gatos(?) drivers and the ati-drivers (binary-ones from schneider-digital.de).
I would like to know the features it supports, their performance glxgears and perhaps some 2D, how compatible they are ( if there are artifacts or so) and if they're updated much and so.
I don't know much about them myself, but i've tried the binary ones and get 1900fps in glxgears and 2D seem ok, no chopping while making big squares on my desktop with the mouse ;P
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I've tried a little more now. I got xfree-drm to work, and that gave me 2800fps in glxgears, which is much better than with the binary's, however the 2D acceleration is way worse with them. When I make a big square on my desktop with the mouse it lags really bad. the binary's are completly smooth. I've also noticed that the binary's, though being slower, support more OpenGL extensions than the xfree. Also keep in mind that the binary's only work in 24bit, hence lower fps. and the drm only work in 16bit, hence more fps. So there is no way to directly compare them.
I really don't know which one to go with, but since it's my laptop and I favor 2D on that one, I think it'll be the binary's for now. I still haven't tried the gatos, because I believe I have to overwrite the DRM's to get them to work.
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sn4ip3r
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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I have radeon 9000 pro
running xfree 4.3.0
xfree-drm is the only stable (for 3D) driver for 4.3.0 on my machine
ati-drivers (2.9.8 and 2.9.12) run fine in 2D, but freeze in 3D (for example in quake3) although the they are a lot faster because of the additional GL extensions
ati-gatos afaik doesn't support 3D and should be only used if you need to use tv tuner (btw. I haven't tried it so I might be wrong here)
in xfree 4.2.0
ati-drivers 2.5.1 are the best, very stable and fast
xfree-drm and ati-gatos I haven't tried though |
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ERW1N
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Location: Singapore
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 3:57 am Post subject: |
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i have Radeon 8500 running XFree-4.3-r2
i use the driver from http://dri.sf.net
glxgears gives me:
| Code: | $ glxgears
28419 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5683.800 FPS
38286 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7657.200 FPS
38565 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7713.000 FPS
38544 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7708.800 FPS
38847 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7769.400 FPS
38429 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7685.800 FPS |
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sn4ip3r
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 11:26 am Post subject: |
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so you actually download the driver from there or emerge the one in portage ? If you get it from the website/cvs, could you please tell me how to do it too, or do the instructions on the site work and not break anything gentoo specific ?  |
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sn4ip3r
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| ok, I managed to do it myself (by just getting the whole CVS tree of DRI, building it and then copying all the relevant libraries to their locations) |
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