New? ATI drivers

[hard candy]

I did not realize ATI released some new video drivers, they even show linux_32 and linux_64 as options for driver downloads.
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

You think the petition helped? Way to go ATI! Stuff's getting better all the time.

(Have I been asleep and youz guys already talked about this? ):confused: )

[happybunny]

These arent that "new"...i have these running on RH9 with ATI 9800.

not sure how to test it tho...but AA works fine.


Edit: not terribly useful, but I have a Dell laptop with ATI mobility, but ATI does not provide drivers for that.

[IsaacKuo]

I don't remember whether it was discussed here, but the news certainly made a splash on the Usenet newsgroups.

I only use lowly low end Ati Radeons, for which the open source drivers have satisfied my modest needs. I don't have to go through any trouble installing the open source drivers, of course. :)

[JayMan8081]

happybunny-
I thought I had read another post here that said the linux drivers would work for the mobility chipsets even though the windows drivers are provided by Dell. I believe (could be wrong :( ) it was Icarus who had used the ATI-provided linux drivers with a mobility card.

edit: It was Icarus in this thread. (http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=135604&highlight=ati+mobility)

[deathadder]

Originally posted by JayMan8081
happybunny-
I thought I had read another post here that said the linux drivers would work for the mobility chipsets even though the windows drivers are provided by Dell. I believe (could be wrong :( ) it was Icarus who had used the ATI-provided linux drivers with a mobility card.

edit: It was Icarus in this thread. (http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=135604&highlight=ati+mobility)
Thats cool, I didnt know that, I though the same as happybunny, hopefully I can get them working on my laptop, its got a 'mobility' card in it, I would have preferend a nvidia in it though :)

[happybunny]

thanks for the info!

I *think* its working...trying test now and will let ya'll know what I did

[Icarus]

Yea, I have them working on my ATI Radeon 9000 mobility chip.
They have support for the chipset and I did notice in the changelogs that the mobility chips are supported. I have not heard anything if that means they have the power management working now or if we still need to use 'hacks'...

The new drivers finally work nearly perfect :p

I can finally play ut2004 Onslaught maps without the drivers barfing the textures up :D

[DimGR]

with the new drivers X was crushing everytime i had to log out of X then re login. Many ppl had the same problem . I also did not see any perfomance gains so i downgraded to the previous version that has been working excellent .

but ATI is finally working on getting the drivers better

[Seph64]

WOW I think I am suffering a heart attack! OpenGL actually works with these drivers!

Well half working. Doom 3 demo runs, but it looks like crap (I have the full game, but not gonna install it until my problems are ironed out).

And I get audio distortions. Maybe it is because of my onboard audio device? I'll try to figure them out tomorrow/

[CoffeeMan]

I am running an ATi Rage 128 Pro and I found out that there is an optimized driver in character devices in the kernel config and OpenGL worked like a charm.

[Icarus]

Originally posted by CoffeeMan
I am running an ATi Rage 128 Pro and I found out that there is an optimized driver in character devices in the kernel config and OpenGL worked like a charm. What does that have to do with the ATI drivers that only work for 9000 or newer? :confused:

[gehidore]

Originally posted by hard candy
...they even show linux_32 and linux_64 as options for driver downloads... Did they show gnu-linux-ppc? Until they do they get no attention from me. (I'm stuck with 55FPS on my ati9200 M cause they do not have gnu-linux-ppc drivers...


279 frames in 5.0 seconds = 55.800 FPS

[rocketpcguy]

using radeon 9200 mobility, the "really slick screensavers" don;t work right. in full screen, it flickers and sometimes gives random transparent textures. works good in windowed mode. tuxracer and chromium work great in full screen.

http://rss-glx.sourceforge.net/screenshots.shtml

[hard candy]

they do not have gnu-linux-ppc drivers...
Now that is a splinter market if there ever was one.
They do not have them for BSD and that's their kissing cousin-linux PPC is the old maiden aunt. Why not use OSX if you still have it? At least you could play some games on it.

[gehidore]

Originally posted by hard candy
Now that is a splinter market if there ever was one.
They do not have them for BSD and that's their kissing cousin-linux PPC is the old maiden aunt. Why not use OSX if you still have it? At least you could play some games on it.

I may love OSX over any previous Mac OS but I don't plan to use it, but a nice dual boot might do me some good.