Re: about the linux ATI proprietary drivers writers team

Bit Twister <BitTwister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:48:40 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:

What graphics card are you using? The last status I know is that the
radeon driver has 3D acceleration for all the cards it supports,

Not well enough in my case.
RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series] (on board)
Module: ATI Radeon 9500 - X850

Flightgear is useless under the new drivers.

Yes, I have tried this now on an X850XT, and it gets maybe 0.4fps. I
have also tried it on my 9250, and that gets around 30fps with the
default settings (and in 1600x1200 full screen). With the X850XT the
r300 subdriver warns about supporting some feature only in software; I
guess that's the reason for the slowdown (the 9250 uses the R200
subdriver). Maybe that problem is fixed in a newer version; I'm using
the versions included with Debian Etch (Mesa DRI R300 20060815 TCL;
for the 9250 the DRI driver is Mesa DRI R200 20060602 AGP 4x TCL), and
apparently not in the version included with your Mandriva 2007.1
distro.

- anton
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