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One for the linux people
Am trying to get a Radeon HD4870 to run under Ubuntu (was Karmic, now Lucid).
Have tried the 'hardware drivers' route.
Have tried the ATI catalyst route (build the .deb packages)
Am trying some of the open source ones, but they don't seem to want to build...
Anyone made this work with 3d heavy stuff?
Cheers
Tom
You'll probably be better asking here:
[url= http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ ]http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/[/url]
or
[url= http://ubuntuforums.org/ ]http://ubuntuforums.org/[/url]
They are both active forums and even geekier than STW
I'm an Ubuntu noob but I'm assuming you've googled:
[url= http://newyork.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9254257 ]here [/url]
[url= http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8803950 ]and here[/url]
Thanks all. Try to avoid linux forums but those look good.
Have googled until blue in the face and found nothing specific. It's only 3d heavy stuff that's a problem, compiz is ok (although off).
Got my HD4850 working with the ATI Proprietary drivers under Karmic using this guide >>
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Karmic_Installation_Guide
Did the Ubuntu software update upgrade to Lucid and it left the ATI drivers as they were 🙂
My Nvidia wasn't too happy after the last version upgrade but 3 days later an update package sorted it out. It might be you need to ignore Radeon drivers.
Not all the 3D features are in the upstream ATI driver yet. What is in it is working fine for me here with my 4870 on Fedora 12 with the current experimental-dri-mesa-driver (see [url= http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_r600_3d&num=1 ]here[/url]). IIRC there's a port of that for Ubumgo.
If 3D performance is key, you'll need to go the proprietary ATI route, with all the nastiness that brings. If all you're wanting is to run compiz etc then the upstream experimental driver should be good enough.
Best place to be looking for this is probably the Phoronix forums.
Try to avoid linux forums but those look good
I wouldn't hang out there but if you have a specific problem they are pretty good.
Thanks, it's the 3d functionality that I need (for modelling not gaming though), rather than compiz (which I see no use for).
ATI drivers mean it runs faster but full of glitches. VArious others run very very slow.
It's driving me mad.
The experimental-mesa-dri-driver should run at similar speed. That the open source drivers run really slowly sounds suggests you don't have direct rendering enabled. Does "glxinfo" show you're actually using DRI ?.
$ glxinfo | grep -i direct
direct rendering: Yes
Thanks Graham. Have a meeting today and tomorrow, but will have a look after that when I have more time, and if I destroy it it won't matter so much