Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264275AbUDTWKA (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:10:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264279AbUDTWJu (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:09:50 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:43269 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264275AbUDTToZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:44:25 -0400 Message-ID: <40857E19.7000009@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:46:33 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Jaeggli CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: System hang with ATI's lousy driver References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1355 Lines: 34 Thanks for responding. Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > kernel drm + xfree86 driver will actually provide accelerated opengl > support in Xwindows albiet without quite as many hardware features as the > proprietary driver on all the rv2xx chipsets including the 9000 but not > on the later models. Well, maybe I should go back and try to get Mesa to work. I don't need a lot of acceleration. It's just that when I was using the Mesa driver, the OpenGL rendering would flash wildly, the colors would be all wrong, and the Z buffering was totally messed up, messing up the layering of objects, etc. I didn't have this problem with RH9, but with Gentoo, it's completely broken. Of course, I probably flubbed a step in the installation (that seems to be a 'feature' of Gentoo, although I really like Gentoo). > > kernel drm & radeonfb have been reported to not play very well with each > other in other venues. vesafb is known to work in this situation though. Maybe that's what I should use. The 2.6 radeonfb doesn't seem to accelerate scrolling right yet anyhow, so what do I care? :) THANKS! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/