ATI Radeon Linux Display Drivers

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	At last! posted by Nomax @ 87.65.88.95 on Apr 16 2009 9:42 PM
"OpenGL support for Compositing managers" --> Youhou! :-D
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	ATI Radeon Linux Display Drivers posted by jrodman @ 64.142.12.203 on Nov 23 2008 7:33 PM
Where are the feature-complete free drivers. Don't you think you should be spending a bit more time on those, AMD? They might work correctly.
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	Would be nice if the drivers worked. posted by Kieran @ 141.154.112.74 on Aug 28 2008 6:11 AM
I have a laptop with an ati x1270 integrated. When I bought it, the thought passed through my head that the one with the nvidia chipset would be a better idea because the traditional wisdom is that ATI's drivers suck both for windows and for linux and especially for linux. But, I decided they must have improved by now. I installed ubuntu 8.04 64 bit. The drivers seem to work in some limited cases, but overall there are all kinds of missing texture problems in all kinds of applications, weird glitches, etc. And, opening some applications, such as Blender, results in the entire screen scrambling into a blocky mess with everything sort of doubled horizontally and scattered all over the screen. The most recent version (listed as 8.8 on their site, but something like 8.522 elsewhere) still has this problem, but version 8.5 (actually something like 8.49) doesn't. From what I can find, it's an old problem that was previously fixed, then came back in 8.6. Joy. Naturally 8.5 has other problems, but if I want to use Blender, I'm stuck with it. Also, I haven't found any way to submit a bug report on the linux drivers to them through their site. So, if anyone is considering an ATI adapter and wondering if they've gotten their act together yet, I'd have to say that, as far as their drivers are concerned, they haven't. It doesn't seem to be quite the same horror story to install them that I used to read about, and in fact, installation seems to be slightly easier than the Nvidia drivers, but the drivers themselves seem to still be not so great.
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Re: Would be nice if the drivers worked. posted by DaVince @ 62.51.153.52 on Sep 14 2008 2:57 AM Don't get stuck with the old version of their buggy drivers. Get the open-source drivers instead, they should work better (at least, they did in my experience).   [Reply]

	Open-source drivers posted by DaVince @ 62.51.153.52 on Aug 11 2008 10:28 PM
I'd like to see what the updates are on the open-source drivers every once in a while, since I'm using these and there's never a changelog in (X)Ubuntu's update manager.
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	ATI Radeon Linux Display Drivers posted by xarvh @ 195.251.36.40 on Jul 7 2008 12:41 PM
The drivers are so bugged that glReadPixels() seg faults, glBindFramebufferEXT() seg faults, and under SDL video mode cannot be closed cleanly.
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Re: ATI Radeon Linux Display Drivers posted by Scarfy @ 78.32.238.94 on Aug 11 2008 9:52 PM Yep, I agree. My next laptop will have an nVidia...   [Reply]

	Err... posted by DaVince @ 62.51.153.52 on May 20 2008 8:37 AM
Did they actually REMOVE support for a bunch of cards? What the hell? In any case, this thing ain't working for me. Last time I tried I couldn't even revert back to the open source driver correctly anymore.
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Re: Err... posted by DaVince @ 62.51.153.52 on Aug 11 2008 10:29 PM Works now (I THINK, using envy), but I stand by my point that the Opensource version is plain better.   [Reply]

	radeon drivers posted by Anonymous @ 193.77.143.212 on Feb 17 2008 12:46 AM
i see a lot of people being dissatisfied with radeon drivers, however i installed them on 3 computers. one is a laptop with X800, another one is a asus vintage barebone witx integrated x1250 and yet another desktop with X1300. Every single one of them worked with no fuss at all. They have quite good preformance in sauerbraten in the case of laptop i can max up all the visuals on 1440x900 and still hape fluid gameplay. well just taught i popped in my comment. ATI drivers are becoming better.
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Re: radeon drivers posted by DaVince @ 62.51.153.52 on May 20 2008 8:04 AM You're lucky. It won't work at all on my crappy Xpress 1100, so I'm glad enough the opensource drivers recently started officially supporting this...   [Reply]

	Really? posted by Anonymous @ 72.139.82.226 on Feb 16 2008 9:18 PM
Does anyone actually even bother trying to use an ATI card for gaming in Linux any more? There's so many problems with their drivers that most people just smartened up and got an NVidia card instead. Now, support for NVidia's cards was terrible at one point too, but they've come a long way. ATI should be able to manage a release better than this by now, unless they're really not dedicated to it in the first place.
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Re: Really? posted by Anonymous @ 86.159.35.109 on Feb 19 2008 6:34 PM   yeah to bad nvidia and ati sell the same number of cards. I enjoy gaming in linux. Infact I created Myah OS. And the last time I bought an nvidia card I returned it the next day. I want more from my linux then what the sheep are given. So I create my own linux. I want more from my 3D card then what nvidia offers. I see they are still playing catchup after that fiasco with the xbox 360 having twice the power of the ps3 nvidia that was clocked 50 mhz faster. But if you really look into the hardware side of it ati has always been more advanced. And as for drivers up to r300 3D is supported automaticly though the open souce. Nvidia isn't. And ati is releasing all there info to the opensouce and developing an opensouce 3D driver to handle all there cards. Nvidia isn't. And the current opensource ati driver that is developed by a different group will soon also offer 3d support past r300. Again nvidia isn't. And the new CPU chips comming in the end of 2008 or beginning of 2009 will come with a ATI GPU buildt strait into the 8 core CPU. I don't think nvidia will stand any chance after that. But some diehard nvidia people will still sing there prases even after they get there new spider up and running.   [Reply]   Re: Really? posted by dejan @ 79.72.199.167 on Sep 2 2008 7:19 AM Blablabla. Whining, more whining, and even more whining... I haven't seen so many accusations, assumptions and a-priori statements in one, single post for a long time. Amazing. I am sure I will never try your OS. - OSes should be done by people who are computer SCIENTISTS, and such people (should) never write texts like one you wrote above.   [Reply]   Re: Really? posted by dejan @ 79.72.199.167 on Sep 2 2008 7:25 AM PS. by now you should know some historical facts, and you WOULD understand why there were no reasons for open-source community to work on nVidia drivers... - They (nVidia) were open from the very begining!!! Because of that open-source community could enjoy nVidia drivers all the time, while ATI was locked inside their conservative shell, and some smart guys decided to do open-source drivers, because ATI still was ignoring open-source community (IMHO it still does). Please read some articles on the web, surf, self-educate, before You start spreading some similar nonsense on forums.   [Reply]

	Supertux no longer works posted by Anonymous @ 217.77.53.3 on Feb 16 2008 9:13 PM
Supertux does not work for me with the updated drivers. Screen is completely distorted regardless of the resolution I choose.
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Re: Supertux no longer works posted by Anonymous @ 217.77.53.3 on Feb 16 2008 10:33 PM   The same problem with Neverball. Worked fine with the previous driver version.   [Reply]   Re: Supertux no longer works posted by Anonymous @ 86.159.35.109 on Feb 19 2008 6:38 PM   I have both of these games installed into Myah OS with 2.6.24.2 kernel and 8.02 fglrx and both games have no problem. Maybe it's the linux distro your running.   [Reply]

	ATI Radeon Linux Display Drivers posted by DaVince @ 62.51.153.52 on Jan 13 2008 10:51 PM
They only focus on the Radeon card nowadays. What am I to do with my limited XPress 1100 that just won't work well for some applications? :(
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Re: ATI Radeon Linux Display Drivers posted by monotonehell @ 121.45.6.194 on Jan 14 2008 12:41 AM   Yes they annoyed me in a similar way, I bough an ATI card and it didn't work out of the box, the next two driver updates were worse and the final nail in the coffin was when they dropped support for it. I just bought a nvidia card and sold the ATI on eBay.   [Reply]   Re: ATI Radeon Linux Display Drivers posted by DaVince @ 62.51.153.52 on Aug 11 2008 10:30 PM Too bad I can't do that. Laptop. :(   [Reply]