On Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009, Keith Dart wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:10:35 +0000 (UTC) > > James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > I thought I'd post my working xorg.conf with ati-drivers-9.6. > > It can probable be whittle down more, but it works with > > xorg-server-1.6.2-r1 so I done for now..... > > thx to all that help.... > > Just FYI, I also have a recent ATI card in my system. I tried the > ati-drivers initially, but they suck. They perform poorly for 2D, and > they are strictly 32bit so you also have to run mixed-mode X server on a > 64 bit system.
so very wrong. > > The open-source x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati package works much better. > If you don't really need the 3D acceleration I'd recommend you switch > to that. except that they don't have working powermanagment, increasing energy consumption (a lot) and noise (even more).
