For WINE Direct 3d I'm shocked at how terrible ATI drivers are. If you look at the Bugzilla entries for Starcraft 2 every single fucking entry is referencing ATI cards. My 4870X2 is awesome in Windows, but a pain in the ass in Linux.
@DarksideEE7 I got a friend with a Mobility 3450 which plays Heroes of newerth perfectly in Wine, while Heroes of newerth in native Linux is really low fps. So I think it's more of an issue with specific cards like your 4870x2. My 4890 is capable of playing most games on Linux with wine and the Ati driver.
@rasiakwood What's bullshit? Intel X3100 doesn't run any games worth mentioning so I don't know what you're talking about? And yes it has great support from Intel towards linux. Try with Intel 500 poulsbo chipset and you got yourself a crappy driver. Intel X3100 is PURE GOLD compared to Intel 500.
@Mantua64 Great support ? I know how this support looks - it is far from great and at the time i wrote those posts driver was so broken you couldnt watch youtube video on this card!
I dont know if they fixed x3100 because i bought X4500MHD laptop (just for HDMI output). And guess what - driver for this card also sucks. You must force brightness in terminal - it doest work with with any aplet (and this problem is at least year old still no fix). Also hd accelaration doesnt work.
@rasiakwood Intel is a great supporter of Linux except for the Intel GMA500 which was build by PowerVX or something, so that isn't actually Intel. I think you need to look for some workarounds since I have had no problems what so ever already back in 2007 on Ubuntu 7.10 with Dell D630 and X3100 with compiz and everything working like a charm. I played Counter Strike through Steam through Wine back then as well. No problems at all. I had one bug though. If using the VGA port I had to reboot :/
ATi binary blob got thrown from archlinux for lack of ... fitness for the purpose... They don`t even mention its not opensource.
Lol, I remember I had a problem with my sata raid card, that kept corrupting the data on copy ops. It did same thing in Linux and BartPE(Windoze). So guess, what card did I buy? :) Silicon Image, cause they FOSS drivers, yeah for real. No problems since then btw.
So ATi/AMD and its pollitics basically suck even more than Xyaon. I start thinking of NOT buying AMD...
You need to install depencies for DKMS first to which kernel you want to use. I got mandriva linux with x200m radeon on board and with newest kernel. Everything works fine with Ati drivers.Games run a bit better on linux than on windows. Ofcourse only with my specs...
yeah i had that problem on my ubuntu too.... i can't get nvidia cuz i have a mac :D but a tip: get mandriva spring one(not 2008) ;) it is auto-supportet with xgl :-)
For WINE Direct 3d I'm shocked at how terrible ATI drivers are. If you look at the Bugzilla entries for Starcraft 2 every single fucking entry is referencing ATI cards. My 4870X2 is awesome in Windows, but a pain in the ass in Linux.
DarksideEE7 1 year ago
@DarksideEE7 I got a friend with a Mobility 3450 which plays Heroes of newerth perfectly in Wine, while Heroes of newerth in native Linux is really low fps. So I think it's more of an issue with specific cards like your 4870x2. My 4890 is capable of playing most games on Linux with wine and the Ati driver.
Mantua64 8 months ago
BULLSHIT.
I bought intel x3100 laptop because it was opensource. and what? driver is unusable!
You can sell this crap to someone who uses ubuntu.
rasiakwood 2 years ago
@rasiakwood What's bullshit? Intel X3100 doesn't run any games worth mentioning so I don't know what you're talking about? And yes it has great support from Intel towards linux. Try with Intel 500 poulsbo chipset and you got yourself a crappy driver. Intel X3100 is PURE GOLD compared to Intel 500.
Mantua64 8 months ago
@Mantua64 Great support ? I know how this support looks - it is far from great and at the time i wrote those posts driver was so broken you couldnt watch youtube video on this card!
I dont know if they fixed x3100 because i bought X4500MHD laptop (just for HDMI output). And guess what - driver for this card also sucks. You must force brightness in terminal - it doest work with with any aplet (and this problem is at least year old still no fix). Also hd accelaration doesnt work.
rasiakwood 8 months ago
@rasiakwood Intel is a great supporter of Linux except for the Intel GMA500 which was build by PowerVX or something, so that isn't actually Intel. I think you need to look for some workarounds since I have had no problems what so ever already back in 2007 on Ubuntu 7.10 with Dell D630 and X3100 with compiz and everything working like a charm. I played Counter Strike through Steam through Wine back then as well. No problems at all. I had one bug though. If using the VGA port I had to reboot :/
Mantua64 8 months ago
yeah you can fix it - we know how it worked for intel drivers haha :)
You use linux for 3 months or what? I used it for 10 years and it was always the same song - fix it yourself,
rasiakwood 2 years ago
ATi binary blob got thrown from archlinux for lack of ... fitness for the purpose... They don`t even mention its not opensource.
Lol, I remember I had a problem with my sata raid card, that kept corrupting the data on copy ops. It did same thing in Linux and BartPE(Windoze). So guess, what card did I buy? :) Silicon Image, cause they FOSS drivers, yeah for real. No problems since then btw.
So ATi/AMD and its pollitics basically suck even more than Xyaon. I start thinking of NOT buying AMD...
lin545 2 years ago
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Linux sucks.
Xyaon 3 years ago
No, only you. Sorry.
lin545 2 years ago 2
It's not drivers problem - its xorg problem. Even Nvidia say that this is total crap.
rasiakwood 3 years ago
You need to install depencies for DKMS first to which kernel you want to use. I got mandriva linux with x200m radeon on board and with newest kernel. Everything works fine with Ati drivers.Games run a bit better on linux than on windows. Ofcourse only with my specs...
karlosocoxo 3 years ago
yeah i had that problem on my ubuntu too.... i can't get nvidia cuz i have a mac :D but a tip: get mandriva spring one(not 2008) ;) it is auto-supportet with xgl :-)
kaiomatico 4 years ago
Ok, I solved defining Modeline options directly in xorg.conf file.
I don't know, but fgrlx doesnt autodetect the optima modeline.
beldog2 4 years ago
@beldog2 Probably a cheap display then. Decent screens report this to the OS when probed
ShadowEater120880 7 months ago
too late T,T
martok666 4 years ago
Wow thats odd. I blame ATI and its anti open source ways. Get a Nvidia card. ;)
Tris2006 5 years ago
As far as I know nVidia does not help development of Open source drivers. ATI does!
alexzeratul 3 years ago
Yeah, I admit ATI got better in the open source world... Woah, my comment is a year old... no wonder. lol
Tris2006 3 years ago