From: David A. D. <de...@gn...> - 2006-03-01 13:02:49
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I just can't win with this, and I'm stuck with the standard radeon/ati driver at a blazing 67fps, using Ubuntu Breezy. - ATI's fglrx driver doesn't allow me to resume from suspend without hard-locking the machine at resume time. - The r300 driver doesn't provide 3D support on my Thinkpad at 16bpp or 24bpp, consistently. I've had it working before, with lots of twiddling in the code and moving libraries around and making/breaking symlinks. Definitely not easy to do (and locks the machine anyway, after about 30 seconds of activity in X) - I can't move to Ubuntu's Dapper (where there are versions of packages I need to test, such as mysql 5.x and so on), because Dapper includes the latest Xorg, which immediately hard-locks my Thinkpad the moment I enter X after logging in. There is no fallback, even using the same exact config that works in Breezy. - I can't build a newer kernel for Breezy, because the fglrx source isn't mated to any of the recent changes in 2.6.1x. I'll google around today for patches that might fix/update that. (Dapper and Breezy are a mess, with respect to trying to build third-party modules like those required by fglrx, vmware and others. Their kernel sources are incomplete, and the kernel source tree they provide does not match the kernel that is actually _running_ on the machine). 67fps is absolutely unacceptable, because I can barely drag a window across without waiting 6-10 seconds for it to redraw and repaint the screen with the window in the new location. What can I do to help here? David A. Desrosiers de...@gn... http://gnu-designs.com |