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[Trevor Bramble]

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Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:26:11AM -0400, Trevor Bramble wrote:
>
>>Good luck.  I tried for months to get hardware acceleration working for
>>my ATI Radeon 9000 with Warty and Hoary and Slackware before them.
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>I don't mean this to be one of those disgruntled flaming exit notices.
>>I do hope you get it working and I'd certainly be interested in hearing
>>the details.
>
>
> I don't know what the problem is; I had a Radeon 9000 serving as my
> primary video card for a very long time up until very close to the Warty
> release, at which point I upgraded to a Radeon 8500, which stayed as my
> primary video card until I switched to AMD64 in late February or March
> or something.
>
> Both of them worked out of the box, with no configuration.  As did the
> Radeon 9200 I have in my PowerPC machine.  Maybe you could be more
> specific?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=21258

My (re)post is a short ways down on the first page.

I've also tried both the packaged and binary drivers with the 686, 386,
and 386-SMP kernels, but if they don't work with 686-SMP, I wouldn't
have been inclined to view it as a success if they did work with one of
those (of course they didn't).

Some people in my journey of desktop Linux masochism have said things
similar, but more glib, about how "gee mine just works" and I've held a
suspicion that those people aren't attempting anything 3D.  2D did and
does work, though it's far from being smooth, out of the box (so to speak).

What I know is, in the rare instances that I've cobbled together some
way to specify the fglrx driver and that is what actually loads for 3D
instead of that hateful, mocking Mesa, the system will lock up 99% of
the time after entering my password in GDM or KDM, and the other 1% it
will lock up a moment after loading the desktop or immediately if I run
fglrxinfo - leaving me quaking in my chair as I stare at the correct
output on a completely frozen display.

If you have any ideas, I'll try them.  I have given up all hope, but I
apparently hate myself enough to keep beating the dead horse anyway.

Cheers,
Trevor
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