Re: nvidia stability [LWN.net]

Re: nvidia stability

Posted Oct 5, 2004 22:03 UTC (Tue) by ranger (guest, #6415)
In reply to: Re: nvidia stability by Wills
Parent article: The future of Linux multimedia (NewsForge)

Easy:

1)Install ati's fglrx 3.9.0 on a distro running XFree86-4.3 on a machine with a Radeon 9200 Mobility
2)Start X
3)Start a 2nd X (ie via KDE's "Start new session" menu entry, or via startx -- :1)
4)Change back to the first X instance (ie CTRL-ALT-F7)

Press your reset button, it's the only thing left to do. It works on every machine I've tested it on, without fail.

NVidia has never done this, neither does the open-source radeon driver from XOrg (which also performs just as well on this hardware).

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Re: nvidia stability

Posted Oct 5, 2004 22:19 UTC (Tue) by Wills (guest, #1813) [Link]

ranger wrote:

1) Install ati's fglrx 3.9.0

Version 3.9.0 of the fglrx driver is really far too old. You need to get fglrx version 4.3.0 or later. Your example works fine with fglrx-4.3.0 on an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600.