ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 256 MB GDDR3 + Open Source Driver

[sylvain]

Hello !

I have just bought this one : T60P Serial 8744J2F

This laptop comes with a : ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 256 MB GDDR3

So, because I use a ATI 9600 PRO Ultra on my desktop, I want to know if I can use the open source radeon driver or do I need to install fglrx driver ?

I'm running Gentoo for the past 2 1/2 years

[jgrobertson]

I am running the fireglxp-8263-dd-cp-34003 from ATI. The one from Lenovo is one rev earlier and might be better. I do have an issue with dual displays, it puts the external one on the right and won't remember my settings.

That is on T60P (2623DDU) with Core 2 Duo and Vista 64.

[sylvain]

So, do you use the ATI proprio driver or the Open source ?

[Troels]

That must be the proprietary driver from ATi. I have the V5200, but i'm also using ATis latest driver with opensuse 10.2. I do have some issues still, when running Beryl.
Hmm, although i can't find it on ATis site.

For some reason I can't enable 3D acceleration, yet Xgl is running.

WHY in the world are ATi GPUs so [censored] hard to get working with linux, in comparison to nVidia?
Why are there so many problems og bugs in comparison?
I had terrible experience setting up Mandriva on the T42. The X-server never started any graphical interface because MR9600 was not properly configured.

The open source driver you mentioned, what is it called?

Jgrobertson, if you get the time - running 'fglrxinfo' from a console, what does it say on you T60p?

[sylvain]

The open source driver you mentioned, what is it called?

The module is radeon and you can find it in the kernel...

It's inside Graphical support or characters device in the device section.