On Wednesday 21 February 2007 17:37, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-02-21, Hamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The ati-drivers package was updated from 8.27.10-r1 to 8.32.5. > >> Rolling it back to 8.27.10-r1 made xv work again. The lock up > >> occurred with xorg-xserver versions 1.1.1-r1, 1.1.1-r4, > >> 1.2.0-r1. ati-drivers 8.33.6-r1 also locked up. > > On my list of things to do is check to see if 8.28.8 with the > 2.6.19 patch works... > > > Hmm... My ati-drivers actually crashes the XServer completely. > > And (Usually) restarts (Sometimes kdm just gives up as well). > > > > I did attempt to raise a support request about it... And got > > an email back from ATI/AMD saying I shuld be thankful for what > > they've given me & not to bother them about it... > > I was bying ATI cards because the open-source driver supported > DRI (it was a bit flakey, but it mostly "just worked"). But, > that ended with the 92xx series. My experience (and the > general consensus, AFAICT) is that the NVidia closed-source > drivers are far less problematic than the ATI ones. > > I've got a 3 year old ATI card that ATI doesn't support at all > anymore with Linux drivers. I've got a 6 year old NVidia card > that still works perfectly and all I had to do is "emerge > nvidia-drivers" > > So I think NVidia is the way to go in general. > > [The problem is that you don't get much of a choice with > laptops. My IBM ThinkPad was too good a deal to pass up even > though it came with an ATI M300.] >
If you have anything up to X600 (Maybe even X700) graphics (basically 9600 on PCIe) then the open source drivers should work fine... Mine is an X1400 sadly, so I don't even get LCD native resolution without the damned ATI drivers (Because it's flakey as hell with their DRI, and suspend to RAM doesn't work... Still... So why even bother). Hamish.
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