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Originally posted by nirvanix
Hey White R4bit, listen to LSD! With DRI you can't even come close to the performance of the ATI drivers. I used the DRI radeon module at first, but when the ATI 3.2.5 drivers came out in August I switched, and enjoyed a 250% frame rate boost and increased stability. I'm running it on Slackware 9.1 with a Radeon 8500LE - no problems. I followed their instructions to do a kernel module compile for 2.4.22 and it was straight forward. ATI is trying to support their hardware on Linux and we need to get on board with them. And yes, you can back everything out if you are not satisfied with their driver. Just back up your current /usr/X11R6 directory for a start, and put it back in place if you're not happy. Besides that, I think ATI just puts a /lib/modules/fglrx folder in your system which you can remove.
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Absolutely correct! ATi's driver works just fine... I too have used both and prefer the ATi official driver...
I had awful trouble compiling the kernel DRM module, too
