Rant about ATI

[Marek Wawrzyczny]

Hi all,

I can fully understand the sentiments here. I've had similar frustration with 
Ati (I have an Ati Mobility X600 card). I also see why the post is 
inappropriate here. Afterall this ML is about the development work on X.

This highlights something that I've always found odd about X, there is no user 
ML. A lot of times I have questions that really don't belong here and so do 
others. I know that the usual response is to ask questions on MLs or forums 
provided by one's distro but there are more and more heterogenous 
distributions like Gentoo, Ubuntu. Increasingly questions and solutions to X 
problems are becoming more and more generic.

Wouldn't it be nice if people like us didn't bug you guys but we still had a 
place to discuss all things X? :)


Regards,

Marek Wawrzyczny


On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:02, Thiago Milczarek Sayão wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
>
>     The intent of this post was making this info available to anyone
> trying to make fglrx working with this card. Maybe this was not the
> right place, but i think some ati developers might be subscribed at this
> list to and would make this info available.
>
> The open source driver works just fine for me, DRI works nicely. The
> only thing that keeps me from using it it's that a bit slow with Xgl.
> But no rant here, i know this is being worked out.
>
> Thanks,
> Thiago.
>
> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 22:52 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> > Hi Thiago,
> >
> > We don't support ATI's binary proprietary drivers. You could try the r300
> > Open Source  driver to see if it works for your card or may have limited
> > support.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Shawn.
> >
> > On Monday 31 July 2006 11:37 pm, Thiago Milczarek Sayão wrote:
> > > The ATI driver release notes says:
> > >
> > > This software driver provides 2D support only for the ATI Radeon® 9100
> > > IGP and ATI Radeon® 9100 PRO IGP.
> > >
> > > My laptop has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP identified as RS300M
> > > which is not and ATI 9100 IGP and not an ATI 9100 PRO IGP. So, i've
> > > been DAYS trying to make this thing work. I've read tons and tons of
> > > HOW TO's and forums etc..
> > >
> > > Just i few hours ago i discovered that my Mobility 9000 IGP is also not
> > > supported. They do a very dirty thing and replace the dri library file
> > > with the "on_igp9x00_we_do_not_support_dri.so". Very very nasty.
> > >
> > > Xorg.0.log reports:
> > >
> > > (II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete
> > > (II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled
> > >
> > > which is NOT correct.
> > >
> > > I'm posting this here because many people that own an Mobility radeon
> > > 9000 IGP can see that its also not supported.
> > >
> > > Oh, and from the 8.27.10 driver release note:
> > >
> > > The ATI Proprietary Linux driver is designed to support the following
> > > ATI Integrated products:
> > > Mobility™ Radeon® 9100 IGP series
> > >
> > > Which of course, is a lie.
> > >
> > > BTW, i've tried linking the atiogl_a_dri.so to
> > > on_igp9x00_we_do_not_support_dri.so and glxinfo reports:
> > >
> > > OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
> > > OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9000/9100 IGP Series DDR
> > > Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.1091 (X4.3.0-8.27.6)
> > >
> > > But when i try to run fgl_glxgears or XGL, the machine doesn't respond.
> > > I think it hangs when try to do anything related to pBuffers.