ATI 4.3.0 Drivers.......

Hehehe, The performance as well as the ability to run ut2k3 is back on linux with this version, as posted by Neocore. Of course, first thing i did is install them. They come with very poor documentation ( even the info.txt is the outdated version of the 2.5.1 ati drivers fglrx version. But the install procedure is exactly the same as the previous ones. I note that lots of mandrake and gentoo users are having clues making it work. It worked fine first go on Debian Sid.

Anyhow the version is : 2.9.6

here is some info :
laclasse@screamer:~/src/atidriver/XFree 4.3.0-2.9.6$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon 9000/Mobility Fire GL 8800 Prototype DDR Pentium 4 (SSE2)
OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-2.9.6)

laclasse@screamer:~/src/atidriver/XFree 4.3.0-2.9.6$

Weird things :

I got the same amount of fps in glxgears using these drivers and the DRI radeon driver. Only difference is the 100 % CPU usage grrrrrr


But in q3a, ouch. What was running at 60/80 average now scores 200 + Hiyayaaa but machine gets 72 Celcius after 30 minutes gaming, so it looks like the throttling is gonnam be used again......

Note that there is 3 settings in the fglrxconfig utility, a fast, a compatible mode and a pure gnu mode. I am on fast right now, gonna test the others now., Hope this bring some cpu useage down.....

Please comment.

Mocking about...

After lots of it and differents tries....i have reverted to the DRI radeon drivers. Here why :

Have a clues with the mouse leaving trails and top fram of windows getting corrompted. Still workable but ya need to change virtual desktop to refresh and get rid of this small annoying thing.

As well the performance is not worth IMHO to bring my lappy at these temperature, and why should i throttle ? i bought a 2.4 Ghz Processor to use it, otherwise a PIII Mobile at 1.13 Ghz will have done it.

Anyhow, they are not yet on the official ati site, so lets hope they will improve and finally will not run at 100 % CPU thats the only annoying thing really on a laptop.

Awaiting comments.

here

here:

http://www.schneider-digital.de/html...nload_ati.html

Hope that helps. As i said devel, 2d is not working well, 3d is awsome, but 100 % CPU.

prairiedog2k

Hey ?

I am running Sid with a recompile of glibc 2.3.1 and drivers did install. Did you try building ya own module ? What distro ? I alien the rpm into a deb for my debian box. As i said it works, but 2d is garbled.

Hope the final ones will be out soon.

ATI Drivers...

ATI currently ships drivers for X 4.3.0 (beta). There is not a lot of it, so don't expect to find RH, your glibc and whatever is ya distribution version. Just try em. And force the install. The guide i posted for the old ATI Drivers is relevant, as they install exactly the same. Please try to understand the difference beetween the DRI radeon drivers of X and the binary module provided by ati (fglrx) You cannot run both.