Ati's linux drivers

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Ahoy, im asking if anyone knows what the current state of play is with ati's linux drivers for their more recent gfx cards (top end 3 and 4 series).

Basically im considering waving good by to my 7800gt, as its not performing to well in some more recent windows games (dual booting here) and want to know if i will be able to have resonably good linux drivers if i went back to ati (i had an x800gto a few years ago and the ati drivers for linux were poor at best).
 
ati in ubuntu at the moment has taken a huge step backwards, no xvideo at all!

If you aren't using ubuntu things seem better though, arch is working fine on my other partition (this is using an old 9600XT AiW)
 
No problems with ATi here, apart from not being able to run OpenGL games and Compiz at the same time. Nvidia's drivers are not what they are cracked up to be either. Only half the performance as what you'd find on a Windows installation with the GeForce 8/9 series.
 
Oww thats a little dissapointing (im playing with both gentoo and ubuntu mainly as cedega is being silly with gentoo and i needed to sleep). Anyway lame looks like im sticking with Nvidia for a while longer
 
Monkeynut said:
No problems with ATi here, apart from not being able to run OpenGL games and Compiz at the same time. Nvidia's drivers are not what they are cracked up to be either. Only half the performance as what you'd find on a Windows installation with the GeForce 8/9 series.
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That's encouraging. When last I tried them, there were serious (fatal) issues with the console framebuffer, and also with switching between X and the consoles.
 
I had an ATI 9800pro on Ubuntu 7.10 till it died when the fan stopped. Worked great. Bought a nVidia card and that worked fine too :)
 
i use a 3870 under Arch with the proprietary drivers and they work just fine on the desktop with compiz etc etc.

never tried gaming with the card in linux however i just always prefer to boot into windows for that.
 
Monkeynut said:
No problems with ATi here, apart from not being able to run OpenGL games and Compiz at the same time. Nvidia's drivers are not what they are cracked up to be either. Only half the performance as what you'd find on a Windows installation with the GeForce 8/9 series.
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My 8800 performs almost just as well as in Windows. However, I can't use XGL + OpenGL for games at the same time either, although thats no huge problem - Compiz is pointless crap imo anyhow :)
 
ATi are putting in CrossFire this year so Phoronix says, and open-source RadeonHD drivers provided by a joint effort of Novell and AMD. So the only way is up! :)
 
i got a 1650pro and I can not get 3D mode enabled for KDE...
I've tried suse 10 and LFS without joy....

any ideas?

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Also, my laptop has a mobile radeon chipset and it doesn't like 3D mode ether...
 
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OOOO new drivers are deffinatally sound like something to look forward too!

Oh yeah opengl games just dont like the fancy desktop effects stuff, thats jut how it rolls for now :( (then again iv never made that cube work)
 
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