fglrx_drv < radeon_drv
Issues with the ATI fglrx driver on my IBM ThinkPad T42p:
- DVI output does not work (no signal).
- Unable to play 720p video because XVideo can’t allocate enough video memory: “BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)”. Disabling DRI frees up enough video memory to enable successful playback.
- After waking up from suspend, 2D performance is very bad (scrolling in gnome-terminal and firefox stutters).
None of these problems occur with the open source xorg radeon driver.
June 29th, 2005 at 6:01 pm
Hrm… exact opposite on the nvidia side, the proprietary works better than the open-source driver (dual-monitors actually work)… which is pretty strange. And unwanted because now I have to taint my kernel for dual-monitor support.
July 1st, 2005 at 7:15 am
What about 3d acceleration? I was under the impression that the open source raedon plugin did not support that or any other hardware accelerated functions such as AGP or PCIe. I just got a Inspiron 9300 laptop and opted to use the raedon plugin, however, after the fglrx libraries did not compile well with GCC 3.4 (they link agaisnt libc++.5 I believe, which I don’t think GCC 3.4 has).
July 1st, 2005 at 10:16 am
The main problem with the radeon driver for me is the lack of tv-out support. Also the OpenGL is better on the proprietary driver. However since they tend to break and change stuff like Xvideo and TV-Out each other driver it would be great if someoen could implement tv-out on the radeon one though…
July 7th, 2005 at 10:20 am
the suspend problem is known by ati but they don’t seem to care about linux users.
April 3rd, 2006 at 3:45 pm
im begining to dislike FGLRX all together, there are so many damn issues and even more problems with amd64. none of these these problems would be such a big deal if ati would just open source this shiat