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Started by beerbitch, November 01, 2006, 04:54:24 PM

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beerbitch

November 01, 2006, 04:54:24 PM
So, I recently upgraded to an ATI Radeon 9600 pro card. It works great when I'm booted into windows. The problem is when I play trem in Linux. The ATI drivers are horrible for linux. Pathetic even. My older NVidia FX 5200 card worked great playing trem in linux with all the settings turned up. Now I find that with the ATI card I get video lag if I use the higher light setting. I have DRI enabled, with the fglx crap all working properly, with the latest ATI binary driver. Does anyone else out there have a similar setup ? What parameters do you pass to the driver ? Any tweaks ? Anything I can do to make the card work better then the older Nvidia 5200 I had when playing trem ?
Beerbitch - "Some days you're the pigeon, other days you're the statue"

Odin

#1
November 01, 2006, 05:35:26 PM
Use open-source drivers. Official Ati drivers are bad, while official NVIDIA drivers are good, and that open-source NVIDIA drivers are bad, while open-source Ati drivers are good.

Understand now?

tuple

#2
November 01, 2006, 07:41:37 PM
I have an ATI card.  I recommend replacing it with a NVidia card :P

beerbitch

#3
November 01, 2006, 07:46:13 PM
Quote from: OdinUse open-source drivers. Official Ati drivers are bad, while official NVIDIA drivers are good, and that open-source NVIDIA drivers are bad, while open-source Ati drivers are good.

Understand now?

Ya, that makes sense. Thanks. I will try it.

Never again will I purchase an ATI card.
Beerbitch - "Some days you're the pigeon, other days you're the statue"

kevlarman

#4
November 01, 2006, 10:19:06 PM
Quote from: OdinUse open-source drivers. Official Ati drivers are bad, while official NVIDIA drivers are good, and that open-source NVIDIA drivers are bad, while open-source Ati drivers are good.

Understand now?
exactly, the open source drivers for ati cards now go up to a 9800 (for 3d acceleration, they go even farther if you just need 2d), so get the open source driver (depending on your distro, it might have a different name, but search for radeon)
Quote from: Asvarox link=topic=8622.msg169333#msg169333Ok let's plan it out. Asva, you are nub, go sit on rets, I will build, you two go feed like hell, you go pwn their asses, and everyone else camp in the hallway, roger?
the dretch bites.
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rasz_pl

#5
November 02, 2006, 12:00:59 AM
os ati driver is also 40-60% slower :)

kevlarman

#6
November 02, 2006, 03:26:57 AM
Quote from: rasz_plos ati driver is also 40-60% slower :)
i'll take a little slower but stable over fglrx (that and i don't want to deal with xgl, but i can't live without beryl)
Quote from: Asvarox link=topic=8622.msg169333#msg169333Ok let's plan it out. Asva, you are nub, go sit on rets, I will build, you two go feed like hell, you go pwn their asses, and everyone else camp in the hallway, roger?
the dretch bites.
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vcxzet

#7
November 02, 2006, 09:12:50 AM
you can install ati drivers I tried alot
but it is mostly distro specific for example here what I did for FC6
1) setsebool -P allow_execmod 1
2)visit
http://www.phoronix.com/redblog/
:P

Basilisco

#8
November 02, 2006, 11:40:19 AM

Sorry, i had to post that :]

rasz_pl

#9
November 02, 2006, 07:53:09 PM
who is that bum Basilisco? :)

kevlarman

#10
November 02, 2006, 07:54:29 PM
Quote from: rasz_plwho is that bum Basilisco? :)
that would be Richard Stallman, founder of the FSF and the GNU project.
Quote from: Asvarox link=topic=8622.msg169333#msg169333Ok let's plan it out. Asva, you are nub, go sit on rets, I will build, you two go feed like hell, you go pwn their asses, and everyone else camp in the hallway, roger?
the dretch bites.
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rasz_pl

#11
November 03, 2006, 12:50:47 AM
Quote from: kevlarman
Quote from: rasz_plwho is that bum Basilisco? :)
that would be Richard Stallman, founder of the FSF and the GNU project.

noo, it CANT BE Stallman, thers no floppy on his head

:]
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