My experience with the r300 driver

[Luis F. S. M. <ra0...@ic...>]

Hello,

just sending this to describe my experience so far with
the open-source r300 drivers. My card is a Radeon 9600Pro
with 256 mb ram by Gecube.

After installing everything following this tutorial :
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-374745-highlight-r300.html
I was able to get inside X without problems.
But, after a few minutes of use, I started having some problems.
Don't know how to describe them very well, so I took screenshots.

My screen gets like this :
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~ra016681/Screenshot.png
After it gets like that, if I move screens around it gets
like this :
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~ra016681/Screenshot-1.png

I have tried a few games (gonna try more later) :

1) Unreal Tournament : seems to work perfectly fine. Haven't 
played it for long, but it's alot better than before with my
Riva TNT2.
2) Counter Strike (with Cedega) : slow as hell. Completely
unplayable. 
3) Call of Duty (with Cedega) : doesn't start. Says my card
does not implement something that it needs to run, and tells me to
reinstall the driver (it doesn't say anyhing useful , like
what is missing).
4) Scourge : kinda slow, and has some sprite problems. sometimes the
entire scren gets brown, for like .1 s , and then it gets back
to normal. But its really slow (specially moving the mouse around).


I've just bought this card mainly because of the open source drivers,
and I really hope I can help. 
Has anyone had any physical problems with their cards using this drivers
?



Thanks alot, and if you guys want to know anything else, just ask

--lf