Re: [Dri-devel] Re: New ATI FireGL drivers announced

[Manuel M. <ma...@mc...>]

Alexander Stohr wrote:

> > It's nearly impossible to buy "build by ATI" board in Moscow,
> > so I was forced to apply my assembly skills to modify board
> > vendor id in 2D driver (fglrx_drv.o). After replacing ATI's
> > id (0x1002) with Gigabyte (0x1458) I was able to start XFree
> > but I saw my text consoles (vga=791) broken.
>
> This might be a BIOS problem. Current drivers are using the
> XFre86 Int10 module for doing mode switches. Thanks for another
> reason for not letting that drivers run on third party boards.
>

Actually, my "Built by ATI" board also has problems with these drivers 
switching back to text consoles once X is started. If I start X and do a 
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch back to the console, X dies. So this is not 
necessarily a bad BIOS problem.

On the plus side TuxRacer and q3demo run faster and better with these 
drivers, on the minus side Xv is still broken (luckily xine lets me use 
the opengl renderer).
-- 
Manuel McLure