Re: the latest ati radeon driver

On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:33:45 +0000, Darren Salt wrote:

I demand that heavytull may or may not have written...

On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:32:24 +0000, Shadow_7 wrote:
and "glxinfo" says???

$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
[snip]
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI
MOBILITY RADEON X300 OpenGL version string: 2.1.7276 Release

You're needlessly tainting your kernel...

What do you mean? i'm using one of the official slack12.0 kernel config
and since it works well i never touched it.
u mean the ATI proprietary's driver taints the kernel?


[snip]
$xine-check
[snip]
[ hint ] Your X server doesn't have any XVideo support...

The best thing that you can do is to remove ATI's taintware and
libraries in favour of xf86-video-ati and mesa.

I actually blacklisted ATI's dirt and and restored the original xorg.conf;

$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
....
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
....
GLX version: 1.2
....
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.5.2
....

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x27 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2a 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2b 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2c 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2d 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2e 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2f 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x30 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x31 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x32 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
Segmentation fault

(That also goes for anybody else using <= X1050, except for Xpress
chipsets - and that's being fixed.)
what's X1050?


[snip]

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