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Distribution: Slackware: in progress, Mandrake 9.2, Libranet, Vector
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!!! ATI Radeon 7000 OpenGL Messed Up !!!
Hi, I'm using a Radeon 7000 video card under Mandrake 9.2. The problem that I have is that I can't run games in OpenGL mode. The video looks really really crappy and very laggy.
Specially Unreal Tournament 2004. I got the demo for both Linux and Windows. Under windows, the graphics are much better and not laggy at all. But under Linux, it's a whole different story. As soon as I select OpenGL, everything gets messed up and can't even think of playing.
I went to ATI website, as there might be some drivers for it. But it does not have linux drivers for Radion 7000.
Is there anything that I can do to improve my graphics or should I just stick to windows for gaming (the ultimate answer).
Distribution: K/Ubuntu 18.04-14.04, Scientific Linux 6.3-6.4, Android-x86, Pretty much all distros at one point...
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I take it you are using the dri drivers. I can post my XF86Config file from my laptop (it runs a Radeon 7500 chipset) late tonight. I run SuSE however, so there will be differences. However, all the major settings will be the same.
I went to http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/ and downloaded the relevant drivers (radeon_drv.o etc.), replaced the original ones and the XFree binary. Then I recompiled the linux-drm-4.3.0-kernelsource.tar.gz (make -f Makefile.linux radeon.o) and copied the radeon.o to my kernel-modules. If that will not work for you submit your /var/log/XFree86.*.log and perhaps I can find something there to help you.
Distribution: Slackware: in progress, Mandrake 9.2, Libranet, Vector
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Originally posted by thereof I went to http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/ and downloaded the relevant drivers (radeon_drv.o etc.), replaced the original ones and the XFree binary. Then I recompiled the linux-drm-4.3.0-kernelsource.tar.gz (make -f Makefile.linux radeon.o) and copied the radeon.o to my kernel-modules. If that will not work for you submit your /var/log/XFree86.*.log and perhaps I can find something there to help you.
I went to that website and clicked on this link http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86 But there are a lot of *.o files. Which ones do I have to download? or do I need all of them?
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!!! ATI Radeon 7000 OpenGL Messed Up !!!
