I hate ATI and FGLRX

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Aron Schatz

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I hate ATI and FGLRX

Sat May 19, 2007 7:35:30 PM #38174 Perm Link

Until ATI has proper open source drivers, I will only be recommending Nvidia (which has binary drivers that work, at least). I tried to get the fglrx driver installed for hours already and X just refuses to boot after enabling the driver. Changing back to the 'ati' driver fixes the problem of X not loading, but the generic 'ati' driver does not provide 3D for my X700. I may want to trade my X700 and X800GTO16 for comparable Nvidia cards if anyone is interested.

I suggest you stay away from ATI/AMD until they resolve the ridiculous situation. And I have to admit that I'm spoiled by Beryl and not being able to run it is not what I want to do anymore.

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Mon May 21, 2007 2:44:20 PM #38258 Perm Link

I, too, have regular problems with ATI's cards. I plan a whole day for getting all the hardware to work on a new system, whether new hardware or trying out a new OS. However...working on it for a few hours...documenting everything as you go along...could prove useful for future projects.

I dunno why you'd use Beryl; I thought you used Linux for stability?

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Mon May 21, 2007 3:19:57 PM #38259 Perm Link

In response to Niscenus #38258

The worst that Beryl will do is crash X and that's not a big deal for me. On my servers I want stability, on my desktop I want coolness.

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Mon May 21, 2007 8:43:57 PM #38276 Perm Link

Really, because I really just want this on my desktop. By the way, the "this" doesn't match the rest of my font-age.

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Tue May 22, 2007 5:17:34 AM #38284 Perm Link

I haven't seen anything except lack of swapspace (that was my fault, unrelated to any software ;-)) crash X11 for a long time. Beryl can crash, but it doesn't take anything with it.

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Tue May 22, 2007 6:51:58 AM #38292 Perm Link

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That's true, I had beryl crashing yesterday and all it did was fallback to Kwin for the WM.

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