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firekage 06-02-2011 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by TobiSGD (Post 4374569)
With the last year I meant all versions of the driver that were released in the last year, with every one of them I was able to look Flash videos in fullscreen without any problems.

When you have problems with that, may it be that you have desktop effects enabled and that this is rather an incompatibility between the WM and the Flashplayer than a driver error?
I do not use desktop effect, i have it switched off (AMD 760G - Radeon HD3000, it is within 760G chipset). This is driver erroc cause the same thing happens with xbmc. I did not have it with 11.3.

TobiSGD 06-02-2011 07:39 PM
Of course YMMV. I just find it rather strange that there is a driver error with your HD3000, your friends HD4XXX, but not my HD3200. But who knows what is going on there.

EdGr 06-02-2011 09:30 PM
My ATI HD4670 works great under Slackware 13.37 with the open-source radeon driver.

There were quite a number of bug fixes from the previous radeon driver in Slackware 13.1.
Ed

piratesmack 06-03-2011 03:04 AM
Just an update since this thread has come back to life.

I ended up buying an older desktop from a friend that had Nvidia graphics instead (Geforce 6150LE).

There were some annoyances with the proprietary Nvidia driver, but all is working well with the nouveau driver + 38.4 kernel in Slackware64 13.37

Martinus2u 06-03-2011 02:24 PM
ATI support
 
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Originally Posted by Pixxt (Post 4374302)
Just a minor rebuttal to your post... AMD/ATi are still releasing drivers for cards that came out 5 years ago i.e hd2000 series...
my last company laptop was considered end-of-life by ATI after two years. Hell, nvidia still updates the drivers for all of their hardware since the Riva TNT cards. That's all hardware from up to 13 years ago. with every new kernel release.

TobiSGD 06-03-2011 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Martinus2u (Post 4375480)
my last company laptop was considered end-of-life by ATI after two years. Hell, nvidia still updates the drivers for all of their hardware since the Riva TNT cards. That's all hardware from up to 13 years ago. with every new kernel release.
The 96.xx drivers (and older) will not run on a recent Xserver, so anything older than the FX5 series will not work anymore.

adamk75 06-03-2011 03:08 PM
And, to be fair, AMD also pays developers (both on-staff and outside of AMD) to work on the open source radeon driver, which supports every radeon GPU. As compared to nvidia who not only have not released updated drivers for older cards on newer X servers and announced they were going to stop supporting the only open source drivers they ever supported for their cards.

firekage 06-03-2011 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by adamk75 (Post 4375519)
And, to be fair, AMD also pays developers (both on-staff and outside of AMD) to work on the open source radeon driver, which supports every radeon GPU. As compared to nvidia who not only have not released updated drivers for older cards on newer X servers and announced they were going to stop supporting the only open source drivers they ever supported for their cards.

Well, but those open drivers for AMD are very...slow. Have you tried running KDE with desktop effect on open and Catalyst? Very good example of this is glxgears:

-open: 51 FPS (desktop with effect tuner on works very slow)
-CAT: 170 FPS (don't need to mention...how it works)

depending on drivers, desktop can work differently, also web browser with flash player and so on.

adamk75 06-03-2011 03:31 PM
The open source drivers have always performed much better at compositing than catalyst. And, frankly, since I don't sit around and watch gears spin all day, those numbers are meaningless.

Adam

Martinus2u 06-03-2011 05:09 PM
96.43.19
 
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Originally Posted by TobiSGD (Post 4375502)
The 96.xx drivers (and older) will not run on a recent Xserver, so anything older than the FX5 series will not work anymore.
what d'you mean by "recent X server"? I have Slackware 13.37 running with 96.43.19 on two machines. With AIGLX and full KDE desktop effects (although the machines are memory and disk bound, so I prefer XFCE these days).


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