Re: ATI proprietary driver 8.31.5 packages

Words by Tommi Kyntola [Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:33:10AM +0200]:
> Matthias Saou wrote:
> >Brent Norris wrote :
> >
> >>Is there a guide somewhere out there for what to do to get compiz to 
> >>work?  I have installed this and tried to enable bling, but it still 
> >>fails.  What all needs to be added or removed from the xorg.conf to get 
> >>this to work?
> >
> >From what I read, the GL extensions required to run compiz won't be
> >available until the 9.x versions of the ATI driver. Only the free
> >"radeon" driver works currently with compiz, but doesn't support
> >accelerated 3D for the most modern ATI cards out there (compiz works
> >fine for me with an "old" AGP 9200 and a "recent-ish" PCI-e X300,
> >though).
> >
> >Send your feedback directly to AMD/ATI... and wait for the free driver
> >to support your card or for ATI to finally release a driver which
> >supports the required extensions...
> >
> >Matthias
> >
> 
> Just for the record the 8.31.5-1 packages break S3 suspend on my laptop
> (HP nw8000, ati mobile radeon 9600), something that works quite
> flawlessly with your 8.30.3-1 rpms.
> 

Yes. Same here.

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