New ATI Driver - Kernel 2.6.22-14 problems

[Guillaume RIVIERE]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 22:04 -0700, David Vincent wrote:
> David Vincent wrote:
> > Guillaume RIVIERE wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> Did someone try the latest ATI driver with Gutsy ? 
> >> (http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/8.42.3) it's supposed to come with
> >> AIGLX support.
> >>
> >> I cannot try it for the moment because the latest Kernel upgrade
> >> (2.6.22-14) make my T43 very very unstable (sometime no mouse, the wifi
> >> doesn't work, no compiz, etc ...), I have to use 2.6.22-13 .but t do not
> >> come with headers needed to install the new driver ...
> >>
> >> Someone know about specific problems with 2.6.22-14 kernel ?
> >>
> >> Guillaume
> >>
> > 
> > sweet!  i'll give it a whirl and report back.
> 
> i got dual-head working but no compiz - says "desktop effects could not 
> be enabled".  i do have direct rendering and the proper stuff is 
> reported by fglrxinfo and glxinfo.  can't find the problem now but i 
> will work on it.
> 
> googleearth works again, glxgears shows a bump in performance over the 
> open-source driver, so far i'm happy.
> 
> anyone interested in a xorg.conf for this driver with dual-head?

yes, me :)

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