From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Spiegl <kernelbug.Andy@spiegl.de>,
John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.15 crashes X Server after running OpenGL programs
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:37:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601241937.06679.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40f323d00601240713x26c3a04cra46e1cd9639b12f2@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 15:13, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On 1/24/06, Andy Spiegl <kernelbug.Andy@spiegl.de> wrote:
> > Too bad there is no free OpenGL driver - I hate to use closed source
> > stuff.
>
> Radeon 9000 is supported in Xorg and as far as i know was already supported
> in Xfree86. The open-source driver works fine for me (Radeon 9200SE).
Indeed. Mesa will provide direct render acceleration on these cards without
using the proprietary driver. Since the 9000 is really too old to run modern
games, I suspect it will be more than adequate.
I'd investigate the open source solution, because ATI's proprietary driver is
poor quality, even for your average binary vendor.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-24 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-24 12:15 Andy Spiegl
2006-01-24 14:13 ` John Stoffel
2006-01-24 14:21 ` Andy Spiegl
2006-01-24 15:13 ` Benoit Boissinot
2006-01-24 19:37 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2006-01-27 17:32 ` Andy Spiegl
2006-01-27 18:04 ` Benoit Boissinot
2006-01-27 21:23 ` Andy Spiegl
2006-01-24 15:15 ` Nick
2006-01-27 14:39 ` modules not enabled, but loading modules! Andy Spiegl
2006-01-24 19:24 ` Kernel 2.6.15 crashes X Server after running OpenGL programs John Stoffel
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