View Full Version : Which version fglrx are people still running?
link2zelda
10-20-2007, 04:48 PM
Here 8.38.6 :short answer.
Long A.
Well the other day was bold to upgrade to gusty Ubuntu, yet still I find myself running fglrx version 8.38.6 . Under XGL, compiz/beryl runs very stable. Just wondering what driver version is still suiting the purpose for people?
Just passing some time until the mythical 8.42 since it will supposedly have AIGLX Support and I won't have to anymore disable it in xorg.conf by Option "AIGLX" "off"
In XGL, 'glxgears' benchmark:
55593 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11118.498 FPS
Hardware Specs:
Sapphire Radeon X1900XT Graphics Card
AMD/ATI driver fglrx version: 8.38.6
X Window System Version: 1.3.0 as displayed in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
32 bit OS Ubuntu feisty upgraded to gusty
total memory using 'free' 4051692.
AMD x2 3800 CPU
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goffrie
10-20-2007, 06:24 PM
8.40.4, since Gentoo doesn't have an ebuild for 8.41.7, and when I tried to make one, it... failed.
Michael
10-20-2007, 06:56 PM
8.42: Err.... You'll need to wait to see the codename.
HighHo
10-20-2007, 08:50 PM
ha codename? I assume thats just for the development version?
Michael
10-20-2007, 08:58 PM
ha codename? I assume thats just for the development version?
The Phoronix codename has been going on for the past couple of releases following AMD 8.xx.x Display Driver Released -- XXXXXXXXXXX Edition.
Malikith
10-20-2007, 09:00 PM
Well with Ubuntu 7.10 I'm running 8.38.6, no reason to try to upgrade or downgrade, I have issues with all of them. Hopefully if 8.42 is any good I'll be running that instead.
HighHo
10-20-2007, 09:00 PM
Ahh yes, I thought you meant ATI had given it a codename themselfs :p
givemesugarr
10-21-2007, 02:38 PM
8.40.4, since Gentoo doesn't have an ebuild for 8.41.7, and when I tried to make one, it... failed.
there's an ebuild in some forum thread. but 8.41.7 doesn't work with amd64 and is quite difficult to make it work with igp boards as x200m or similar.
Just passing some time until the mythical 8.42 since it will supposedly have AIGLX Support and I won't have to anymore disable it in xorg.conf by Option "AIGLX" "off"
the 8.40 should work a little better and 8.41 should work well with your board. the issue is just it's installation.
goffrie
10-21-2007, 02:39 PM
there's an ebuild in some forum thread. but 8.41.7 doesn't work with amd64 and is quite difficult to make it work with igp boards as x200m or similar.
... Well, I use amd64.
I am running the newest fglrx.
yoshi314
10-21-2007, 03:28 PM
8.42: Err.... You'll need to wait to see the codename."Have no fear - the bugs are here" edition :D
where's "i ditched fglrx for opensource drivers" poll option?
I would wear a "ATI fglrx" T-Shirt anyware I go if I'd have one :D You'll be back using fglrx this year, yoshi.
givemesugarr
10-21-2007, 05:51 PM
i would name it:
8.42 - the answer to the fundamental question.
(this is a little for an elite group)...
ati had put a supercomputer to write the best driver ever and it took the supercomputer a loooot of time but in the end it came out with the answer.
the only thing is that ati has forgotten the question so it had to build another supercomputer to compute the question.
:D
Uchikoma
10-21-2007, 06:33 PM
Running 8.40.4 on an x1400 (Dell Inspiron) with Ubuntu 7.04.
Xv, and Powerplay script to set it to lowest power-sucking mode, and DRI: yes
No problems with it at all. Zip. Zero.
8.41 broke X for me, and I hope 8.42 becomes the awesome edition.
I'm running 8.40, 8.41 is too buggy and has no performance increment with my 9600
edged
10-21-2007, 09:17 PM
FGLRX 8.40.4 on OpenSuSE 10.3 atm. Same driver on 10.2 was rock solid, still as stable as ever on 10.3 once installed ;)
BTW the CFS scheduler is pretty good, but it is probably better for SMP boxes... have an Athlon XP with 9800 Pro @ AGP 4x.
givemesugarr
10-22-2007, 03:54 AM
still as stable as ever on 10.3 once installed
the 10.3 is the best suse release of the past years. i've had a look at it some days ago and i found it to be very stable and fast. the only thing that i haven't looked at is the external packages installation. but for all the other things i found it to be a very good distro. :)
yoshi314
10-22-2007, 04:52 AM
You'll be back using fglrx this year, yoshi.we'll see about that. keeping behind with x.org and kernel releases is something i simply cannot accept.
i don't even want to think about other issues at hand.
Kernel 2.6.23 support can be easily patched for some weeks now and Xorg 7.3 was always supported, you just needed -ignoreABI.
FunkyRider
10-22-2007, 12:46 PM
I used to install 8.40 myself, but since upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10, I just don't give a damn about it and uses the 8.37 one in Ubuntu Repository because there isn't any speed and functionality differences...
Ole-Martin Broz
10-22-2007, 03:49 PM
gotta run 8.41.7 WHICH IS UNSTABLE, very, but got 2900 XT so have to :p
Gottxxc
10-22-2007, 08:24 PM
8.40.4. The newest driver doesn't work for my system ;)
amwriter
10-23-2007, 02:08 AM
8.42: Err.... You'll need to wait to see the codename.
Nice, rub it in... :( :rolleyes:
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