ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:11 pm

Anyone know how the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 works with linux? Do either the radeon or ati free drivers work at all? I've had, well, less than awesome results with the flgrx (or whatever) driver, and IIRC they're abandoning a bunch of cards anyhow. Barring that, how's the support on the firegl mobile cards?

Believe it or not, my wife is looking at a stinkpad in lieu of the goddamned MacBooks which apple seems unwilling or unable to update. She's been using my Kubuntu installation on my stinkpad and likes it fine. I'm still going to give apple a week or so, but I really need my lappy back, and she really wants New Stuff.

Karl · Post by **Karl** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:38 pm

Both the radeon and the fglrx ones should work. Although if you want 3D support you'll need the ATI (fglrx) ones.

The cards ATI dropped support for was the 9200 and under series. I've read the radeon driver can support 3d in those models, but I have not tried it.

I work with 2 computers that have a Radeon. A X600 and a 9200. I've had strange issues with both when using the fglrx driver. I make a point to avoid ATI when I can now.

Jza · Post by **Jza** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:38 pm

i think is a known bug that there are issues between the Radieon drivers and XGL.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:58 pm

Karl wrote:Both the radeon and the fglrx ones should work. Although if you want 3D support you'll need the ATI (fglrx) ones.

The cards ATI dropped support for was the 9200 and under series. I've read the radeon driver can support 3d in those models, but I have not tried it.

I work with 2 computers that have a Radeon. A X600 and a 9200. I've had strange issues with both when using the fglrx driver. I make a point to avoid ATI when I can now.

Me too, but it's difficult to find nvidia on lappys these days. Usually if you can, there's some other major issue.

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:44 pm

I've got a Radeon Mobility M300, and the open source "ati" driver works well enough. Atleast well enough to use XScreenSaver, and play a few OpenGL games, like NeverBall or Sauerbraten. I haven't tried UT2004 or DOOM 3 yet.

It seems that the X1400 should work fine with the proprietary driver - http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Video_Cards# ... lity_X1400

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:59 am

Well, if at all possible, I'd like to avoid installing ati's prop driver until it's worth half a shit. IME it causes crashes or oopses when hibernating/waking, etc. For my wife 3d is of zero importance while sleep/hibernate are of very high importance. Honestly, I wish there was an ibm integrated solution I could find easily. There's also the sata drive issue - I guess I hope that the patch Ubuntu applied to the kernel is a recent enough version to allow sata to sleep and wake w/o eating hot death. It looks like we're entering an era of linux-unfriendly lappys again

I simply can't believe the sort of stuff Dell is offering for sub $900 right now - merom + 17" widescreen + loaded = $890 -- WTF? I figure this is to get them past the bad press from all the deadly battery fanfare, but still, those are some droolworthy lappys for very low prices. I have to assume they're total crap build quality...