Reply With QuoteGreat! Finally I can switch to F11 repos and do yum upgrade
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AMD Catalyst 9.8 Delivers New Kernel Support
Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 9.8 Delivers New Kernel Support
It's taken quite a while, but AMD has finally delivered support for the Linux 2.6.29 kernel within their Catalyst driver. The Linux 2.6.29 kernel was released in March, but it has taken until today for AMD to release any support for this kernel...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzQ2Mw
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Great! Finally I can switch to F11 repos and do yum upgrade
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Seems to work OK in Gentoo with kernel 2.6.30-r5. Resizing/maximizing problem still there. The mplayer (gl backend) GUI corruption in KDE4 with desktop effects enabled problems seem to have been fixed though; haven't seen any menus and buttons in SMPlayer going missing/replaced with garbage yet.
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No change with Xv+Composite, but one thing is cool. I ran Street Fighter 4 benchmark with wine 1.1.26. Before my computer froze when I changed the resolution of the test, now it is ok. Still not playable (image is flickering) but it is a good step forward.
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What problems do you experience with Xv+Composite?Originally Posted by rafi
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Well, like with the 9.7, the image get blurred when the window of the video player is on the left of the screen and the video is black after minimizing the video player (vlc and smplayer tested). To get the image back I just have to resize the window, so there is no real problem with Xv+composite, I just wanted to say that it didn't get better. Anyway the little improvement in wine is cool.
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Ho-hum. No XvBA support. So glad I switched to Nvidia for my HTPC. My 780g board is now relegated to the living room web browser 'net top'. Glad to see AMD making progress, but the lack of accelerated video support on par with VDPAU is really just sad at this point. Just sad. I'll say it again. Sad.
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91.7mb? Don't you just love to hate AMD/ATi
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Yeeeeey!...NOT.
After a couple of minor adjustments to my system to ditch the default Fedora setup for radeon (blacklist, mkinitrd, etc.) I managed to install the driver and it worked for almost A WHOLE MINUTE before hanging the system. NICE. FANTASTIC. AWESOME.
Great work guys, thanks!
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Okay, I've done fast tests comparing 9.7 and 9.8, here are the results :
Okay, but don't get your hopes too high :/ although tropics improved quite a lot, but that because I've got errors in rendering :/ whole benchmark was missing water and screen was flickering before I've turned aa onCode:glxgears : ------- fglrx 9.7 : 53380 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10675.902 FPS 52212 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10442.344 FPS 54455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10890.948 FPS 54634 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10926.746 FPS 54642 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10928.370 FPS fglrx 9.8 : 53251 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10650.068 FPS 53398 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10679.592 FPS 53512 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10702.357 FPS 53515 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10702.912 FPS 52923 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10584.525 FPS ------- fgl_glxgears : ------- fglrx 9.7 : 16354 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3270.800 FPS 14017 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2803.400 FPS 16523 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3304.600 FPS 14438 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2887.600 FPS 15332 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3066.400 FPS fglrx 9.8 : 16568 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3313.600 FPS 16774 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3354.800 FPS 16844 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3368.800 FPS 15977 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3195.400 FPS 16838 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3367.600 FPS ------- q3a : ------- fglrx 9.7 : 840.0 fps 772.1 fps 833.3 fps 807.3 fps 802.5 fps fglrx 9.8 : 660.1 fps 751.4 fps 825.7 fps 705.5 fps 537.5 fps ------- hon : ------- fglrx 9.7 : ~60 in game fglrx 9.8 : ~80 in game : ------- tropics 1.2 aax2 : ------- fglrx 9.7 : 30.8 fps 776 score fglrx 9.8 : 38.0 fps 957 score -------so something is wrong with this drivers.
As for hon, well i've measured it durning a game play, so it's not really reliable because I wasn't watching the fps all the time, but I think there is a little improvement.
My system and rig :
ubuntu 9.04 amd64
E6550@3.15GHz
HD4850@stock
4GB DDR2-900
Can anyone test unigine tropics ? I'll try sanctuary now.
EDIT :
okay, I've tested few things with tropics and found out that first run gives me like 0-4fps and screen corruption (blue and black lanes). But when I change to aax2, everything is looking fine, only water is missing... BUT... when I turn on aax4 or more everything is fine ;o no screen flickering, no corruption, water is perfect... ;x it has to be driver thing :x
Last edited by Tares; 08-17-2009 at 04:51 PM.
