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[Larry Hartman]

On Monday 18 June 2007 06:41:13 pm D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Monday 18 June 2007, Larry Hartman wrote:
> > 1) the open source ATI driver that typically comes with Linux
> > 2) download  and install the proprietary ATI driver
> >
> > In either case there will be no direct rendering.
>
> Huh?
>
> I'm using the proprietary ATI driver on an Am64 running in 32-bit mode. 
> The motherboard has an ATI chipset with crappy built-in video:
>
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon
> Xpress 200] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>
> Direct rendering is working:
>
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0  screen: 0
> direct rendering: Yes
> [...]
> client glx vendor string: ATI
>
> Glxgears is giving numbers indicating a non-busted state for 3D:
>
> 5626 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1125.083 FPS
> 5598 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1119.413 FPS
> 5500 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1099.981 FPS
> 3724 frames in 5.0 seconds = 744.098 FPS
> 468 frames in 5.0 seconds = 93.555 FPS
> 458 frames in 5.1 seconds = 90.670 FPS
>
> So I'm not sure what all the fuss is about.  I got this working with distro
> packages, and switching "ati" to "fglrx" in xorg.conf.  Not rocket science.
> (If it required any kind of effort, I wouldn't bother.)
>
> Now I'll grant you that the ATI drivers are always buggy.  I abandoned them
> last time because my computer crashed every time I logged out.  This time
> around, I haven't logged out yet, so I don't know about that one.  I do
> know I'm getting all kinds of weird rendering artifacts in web browsers and
> text editors, and I assume I can thank the ATI drivers for this.
>
> No crashes in 22 days so far.  That's not a bad track record for the
> proprietary ATI drivers.  :)
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre

yes you are right...I am thinking of some other widget that doesn't work....my 
memory fails me here.

Larry