New ATI Driver - Kernel 2.6.22-14 problems

[John Dangler]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 15:18 -0400, 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.
> 
> well i'm back on the ati driver after getting everything working
> nicely
> under the latest ati release.  here's why:
> 
> 1.  hibernate and suspend are still broken with the fglrx driver.  it
> is
> a kernel issue and requires ati to fix it in their drivers.
> 
> 2.  i cannot run compiz with my dual-head display.  it'd have to drop
> both monitors to 1024x768 instead of 1280x1024 and i'm just not
> willing
> to do that.
> 
> the new aiglx support is nice (i hate xgl) and i get almost twice the
> fps with glxgears with the fglrx driver over the ati, but when it
> comes
> down to it i'll take function over form every time.
> 
> so now i'm back on ati, with no compiz, no googleearth, but working
> suspend/hibernate and i'm happy.  googleearth can be used on my other
> machine (with the nvidia card in it) when i need it and i just don't
> care enough about desktop effects to run them full time.
> 
> -d
> 
Where did you get the driver?  I'd be interested to test it.  I have
everything working in Gutsy with ATI except the cube effects...

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