ATi Open drivers are coming of age... :)

[screaminj3sus]

All part of the fun & games of playing on the bleeding edge.

My machine freezes every couple of days due to all the dev' packages & kernel I'm running to satisfy my desire to play this game with the ATi OSS drivers. (It has only happened 3 times) I can live with that until I get an upgrade that will fix it, though I expect you'll be dumping that kernel pretty quick.

Yeah I am back to rc6 for now and am anticipating 2.6.35. My main problem with linux is vid drivers so the main reason I am running ubuntu right now it to see the oss driver progress so I can know when itll actually be able to run properly on my laptop someday lol.

[handy]

Yeah I am back to rc6 for now and am anticipating 2.6.35. My main problem with linux is vid drivers so the main reason I am running ubuntu right now it to see the oss driver progress so I can know when itll actually be able to run properly on my laptop someday lol.

Ubuntu is not necessarily the ideal distro for your purpose, I would suggest Arch if it meets your other requirements as it is bleeding edge to start with & there is a great bunch of guys that have been on the ATi GPU OSS case for quite some time.

There are pre-compiled repo's (specifically for this ATi GPU situation) with the most current packages & kernels (tested first before inclusion) & continual feedback in the specific topic thread, the first post of the thread is kept up to date on the situation in a how-to kind of way:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79509&p=1

Arch is different though, generally people either love it or get out of there pretty quick. The steepest part of the learning curve is the installation & setup of your system, after that the more you do it the better & easier it gets.

[BigLouis87]

BigLouis87: try "su" and then "echo X > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state"
make sure X is a valid status id!

My card has only status 0 and 1, so X can only be 0 or 1. (see below?)

mmmh... I don't have "power_state"!:

cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/
boot_vga                  drm/                      msi_bus                   resource1
broken_parity_status      enable                    power/                    resource2
class                     firmware_node/            remove                    rom
config                    graphics/                 rescan                    subsystem/
consistent_dma_mask_bits  irq                       reset                     subsystem_device
device                    local_cpulist             resource                  subsystem_vendor
dma_mask_bits             local_cpus                resource0                 uevent
driver/                   modalias                  resource0_wc              vendor

and under "power" there is only "control" (set "on") and "wakeup". Can you tell me why??
However dmesg say that I have 4 powersteps (with fglrx I had only 3... wow!)
Do I have to disable dynpm in the option of the module?
Thank you

PS: When I'll have some time I'll retry to reinstall Arch... it will be the third time!

[handy]

@BigLouis87: Sorry, I'm out of my depth. As previously mentioned the card in my iMac is not responding to the PM as other GPUs of the same model, so I haven't had any first hand experience of being able to fiddle with the settings.

See what you can scroogle up on the subject on the web.

Good luck & let us know what you find out please?

Re. Arch installation, follow the Beginners' Guide to the letter & check the Arch forum for any problems post there if you need to.

These days beyond a very obscure wireless network situation there isn't much in the way of obstructions that are insurmountable re. the install.

[prions]

This is awesome.

Any chance older cards (my x200m) will get support?

[handy]

This is awesome.

Any chance older cards (my x200m) will get support?

This is posted in the first post:

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

[prions]

Thats awesome! Lets hope they turn out to be great.

[screaminj3sus]

Ubuntu is not necessarily the ideal distro for your purpose, I would suggest Arch if it meets your other requirements as it is bleeding edge to start with & there is a great bunch of guys that have been on the ATi GPU OSS case for quite some time.

There are pre-compiled repo's (specifically for this ATi GPU situation) with the most current packages & kernels (tested first before inclusion) & continual feedback in the specific topic thread, the first post of the thread is kept up to date on the situation in a how-to kind of way:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79509&p=1

Arch is different though, generally people either love it or get out of there pretty quick. The steepest part of the learning curve is the installation & setup of your system, after that the more you do it the better & easier it gets.

I tried arch and got it all installed fine but I thought simple things like getting wireless to work are just too much of a hassle and couldn't getting it to work the way i wanted (didnt find any of the arch documentation in this area very helpful).. I like bleeding edge but I also hate having to every single little tiny thing manually.

I really like the idea of its rolling update model, but I cant stand not having such basic things having to be configured manually.

[prions]

This is posted in the first post:

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

While I think my card is supported, is there any way to check? I'm not familiar with their naming system (r200, r300, etc). Its a legacy card so I'm not sure.

Thanks.

[handy]

While I think my card is supported, is there any way to check? I'm not familiar with their naming system (r200, r300, etc). Its a legacy card so I'm not sure.

Thanks.

It looks like it is an R300, from what I gather it is a bit different, it is not listed on any of the pages where I go to check on this kind of stuff, but I see that it may be similar to an X300 chip.

Sorry I can't be of more help on that one.