[wellylug] Ati X1250

[Daniel Reurich]

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:16 +1300, E Chalaron wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am getting annoyed with an ATI radeon X1250 GPU.
> It is integrated into a Kino ITX mobo socket S1.
> Suse 11.3 is running Ok on it so is OpenGL
> 
> However the performances are far below expectation, hence me trying the
> ATI catalyst stuff from the official site etc ..
> no such luck, can't install it.

Why not??  It installs and works fine in debian :-)
> 
> So went to the xorg.conf and there is already a "driver: Radeon"
> but is it the proper one ? No idea, obviously there is plenty of
> versions of radeon drivers.
> 
No.  The driver name is fglrx

> Any chance for an open source alternative in the ATI world such as I
> would know for sure that I am reaching the max performance?
> I know I cant probably expect a lot from this GPU but at this stage I am
> not even sure if I am reaching its maximum possibility.
> 
The open source drivers don't yet utilise all of the higher end 3d
acceleration capabilities of these cards, but they tend to be more
stable and reliable with suspend to ram and also 2D acceleration is as
good as or better then the proporietary catalyst drivers.  It is
expected that these open source driver projects will either merge at
some point or one will win out over the other, and they will eventually
compete performance wise with the proprietary driver.   

FYI, there are 2 different projects with different approaches to
handling of register settings for modsetting.  It is reasonably expected
that either these projects will merge, or on will clearly win out over
the other.  But I digress....