ATi Drivers for Linux

[aikbix]

Well I haven't been using Linux at all for the past six months or so mostly because the FireGL drivers for non-commercial Linux SUCKED. I am pretty much stuck with my horrible Laptop with a Mobile X300 ATI card until I buy a new one next year. I thought of actually installing Linux again, because of all these programs and stuff which have popped up and/or improved over time.

But I thought it might just be good to ask people who play Nexuiz on Linux. Have the drivers for ATi cards on Linux improved at all?

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I, too, have a laptop with an ATI x300.
Using fglrx 8.32.5, I get ~30 fps at normal.cfg and ~85 fps at low.cfg, both of which are tolerable.

So, the newer versions of fglrx give playable fps on Nexuiz at lower settings. They also support suspend and their powerstate can be lowered to improve battery life.

However, the older versions of fglrx worked properly with xinerama, and now they just choke on external monitors of different resolution to the main monitor.
Also, ati still doesn't support gl_ext_texture_from_pixmap. and Catalyst on Windows XP offers better performance and more configurability.

Ubuntu 6.10 and Fedora Core 6 both installed the free "radeon" driver by default for me, which supports hardware acceleration on the ati x300 mobility, but is slower than the proprietary fglrx.

Fglrx really isn't hard to install either.

Do you have the 64 MB or 128 MB x300?

[aikbix]

Indeed, well thank you. The last time I tried using Fglrx with normal.cfg it was really un-tolerable. I might give linux a go later on this month, but it all depends. I don't know what to use though, Ubuntu has improved drastically, but there is just something about it that changed. I am considering either Debian or something else Debian-based.

[Psychcf]

my laptop is so awesome. it runs linux, it has a geforce 2 go, 30 gig hard drive, a floppy drive, and a DVD drive. It also has a 15 inch LCD screen. Don't forget the 1 hour battery life!

for your information it can't even display the main menu, the sound gets all choppy and the mouse barely moves... it's like 5 years old now, and I only use it to play quake 2. and mabie when I'm too lazy to get out of bed just to check my email... Wait, that's my palm pilot's job.

[aikbix]

Well sound was not too harsh on my PC at all. But there are methods to fix sound problems for quake based games. I saw something about it on the Ubuntu forums on it before. If i find it, I'll give you a link.

[KadaverJack]

for your information it can't even display the main menu, the sound gets all choppy and the mouse barely moves... it's like 5 years old now, and I only use it to play quake 2. and mabie when I'm too lazy to get out of bed just to check my email... Wait, that's my palm pilot's job.

Sounds like you have no hardware acceleration at all... Install the proprietary nvidia drivers and it might even be able to run Nexuiz (at very low settings, of course)