From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kk4qL-0007GH-Ci for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:34:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D71ABE04F6; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A73E04F6 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id EE8C0211903 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:34:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A0B211902 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:34:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [139.174.197.94] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.8) with ESMTPSA id 37509799 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:34:13 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] State of ATi drivers in Linux Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:34:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.90 (Linux/2.6.26.5r4; KDE/4.1.67; x86_64; ; ) References: <48DFF578.9070000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48DFF578.9070000@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809290034.10422.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: d82856e7-3d50-49a5-ba59-380b3f33b296 X-Archives-Hash: d323c738c4d2599558fe601567f1ecc8 On Sunday 28 September 2008, Hal Martin wrote: > Hello all, > > I am contemplating building a new computer with an AMD/ATi graphics > card. I've been following the subject of ATi driver quality in linux for > a while, but I realize that the experiences I read on Google search > results are, shall we say, biased, as many people who have perfectly > working cards don't go out and comment on how great their drivers are. > > So, do any of you have newer (HD series) AMD/ATi graphics cards? HD3870 > What drivers (AMD closed source, or open source) are you using? fglrx - the closed source ones. > Are they stable? yes. Switching between vt and X works, and restarting X too - but the ati scripts in /etc/acpi have to be removed. With desktop effects turned off 2d is fast and snappy and video is ok. With desktop effects turned on 2d is fast except manually resizing windows and xv-video sucks. Luckily kde 4.1 makes it easy to switch ;) - and I don't need xv ;) > How is the performance? very good. I play ut2004 and vegastrike 0.5. With a but. See above. > Any noise issues with your card when it's idle? Under load? the fan is very quiet in KDE or playing games. Only in the menus of ut2004 or on a vt it turns up - but is still very bearable. aticonfig --odgt Default Adapter - ATI Radeon HD 3870 Sensor 0: Temperature - 51.00 C