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4/10/03 at 1:38pm
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...&highlight=ati


WOO... havent got a chance to try them yet, ill keep u updated when I do... sitting in work now eagerly wanting to go home... fingers crossed they're a good beta (I say beta because they aren't officially on the ATI site.)


There is a guy in the forum post who has installed them on a Radeon... he says:

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For me the ebuild in the portage tree worked flawlessly. (XFree 4.3-r1) On my Radeon 9000M, I'm getting ~2000 fps! Not too bad, especially since before I installed this I was just going with software rendering (72 fps, no more, no less). The only potential issues I noticed:

I think you probably should unmerge xfree-drm first if you've got it installed.

Do run /opt/ati/bin/fglrxconfig like the ebuild recommends. Backup your old XF86Config just in case.

Right after I did this and rebooted it wanted to go into 640x480 mode with 1600x1200 in a virtual screen (yuck). This was an easy fix; I just deleted every resolution except 1600x1200 (my monitor's native rez.) in XF86Config and rebooted again. Probably that was just a dumb newbie mistake that wouldn't be an issue if I had a desktop computer where I could go Ctrl+Alt+'+' like the instructions recommend.

Xfree-drm never worked right for me (again, I'm an ignorant newbie), but this is perfect for anybody who can handle the prospect of a precomipled driver in a source distribution.
Info on the ebuild for gentoo users is in the link, and info for other distros is also there... but it looks like your going to have to do more than "emerge ati-drivers" to get it installed :P The wonders of gentoo

Have fun

NeoCORE
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