[gentoo-user] No DRI for ATI 9250 and xorg 7.2?

[gentoo-user] No DRI for ATI 9250 and xorg 7.2?

[Grant Edwards]

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, ATI basically said
"screw you" to anybody with a 92xx series card.  ATI's drivers
stopped supporting the r2xx chipsets after version 8.28.8, and
that version only works up through xorg 7.1.  

My ATI based card is only 3 years old, and it's useless if I
want to do DRI.  OTOH, I've got a 7 year old NVidia card that's
still supported.  The closed source NV drivers have always
"just worked" for me, and the ATI close-source drivers have
always been hard to get installed and flakey once they were
installed.

Yes I know there are open-source drivers that are supposed to
do DRI for the r2xx chipset, but they've got so many rendering
issues they're useless.  I just tried again with the
open-source drivers.  Glxgears runs OK, but on the opening
screen of ppracer, none of the menu text is rendered.

I swear I'll never buy another ATI chipset again. If AMD
doesn't straighten out the mess at ATI, I'll switch back to
Intel CPUs as well...

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Re: [gentoo-user] No DRI for ATI 9250 and xorg 7.2?

[Chris Frederick]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> I swear I'll never buy another ATI chipset again. If AMD
> doesn't straighten out the mess at ATI, I'll switch back to
> Intel CPUs as well...
> 

I usually don't offer my opinion to a rant but I just can't resist this one.

I've been using an amd64 cpu on a ATI chipset for a mythtv server for
the last two years now.  The graphics are a Radeon Express 200G.  This
system is an absolute joke.  Graphics drivers aside, I've never seen a
more flaky, worthless motherboard in my life.  I've done many a kernel
update, only to reboot and sit by the TV for the next half hour while I
hit the reset button every minute because the BIOS can't get past
checking for RAM modules.  It shouldn't take 15-20 minutes to do an
'emerge --sync' on a 64bit AMD 3000.  You'd think after two years there
would be a bios update to patch this ...

My nForce motherboards and GeForce graphics card are in the mail.  I
don't expect to see an ATI label in my house or company for a long time.
 nVidia may be closed source, but at least they work.

</rant>

Chris
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Re: [gentoo-user] No DRI for ATI 9250 and xorg 7.2?

[Iain Buchanan]

sorry, your email wasn't compliant, you forgot the <rant> and </rant>.

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peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being
ahead of your time when people finally realize you were right, they'll
say it was obvious all along.
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