holy shit, 9800 GT.
August 16, 2009 at 18:50 | Posted in Adventures | Leave a commentTags: ati, geforce 9800 gt, nvidia, wine, wow
Total surprise.
I went from using my shitty onboard intel graphics chip, to my new Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT. And motherfucker. I installed the proprietary driver from the nvidia website, loaded up WoW under wine, and got 60 FPS. I had 1 fps before. ONE. And now I have 60!
I am so unused to this. Go Nvidia, for kicking ATI’s ass in terms of linux support.
I was, however, mildly annoyed to find that I had to shut down X to install the Nvidia driver. Tch, don’t have to do that with ATI xD. That could throw off some linux users who are unused to the console and don’t know how to shut off X, etc.
But my god. I had the graphics turned up almost to the max settings, and got smooooth frames the whole way. In linux! Watch me never boot up into Windows again.
fucking with fglrx
July 21, 2009 at 11:04 | Posted in Adventures | Leave a commentTags: ati, fglrx, xorg.conf
I’m going to first attempt to revise my xorg.conf by appending this line:
Option "TexturedVideo" "on"
in order to fix my issues with the computer locking up when I play video with the fglrx driver.
If that fails, I am going to upgrade from
# fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8087 Release
to “ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run”.
Let’s go <3
edit– success! the appended line wins <3
switching between ati and fglrx graphics drivers
May 13, 2009 at 12:20 | Posted in Scripts | Leave a commentTags: ati, fglrx, xorg.conf
Firstly, save two extra copies of your xorg.conf. Configure one to use the ati driver, and save it as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.ati, and configure the other to use the fglrx driver and save it as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx.
For switching to the ATI driver:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Putting ATI driver in use..."
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.ati /etc/X11/xorg.conf
killall X
For switching to the fglrx driver:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Putting fglrx driver in use..."
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf
killall X
And then after either of these, you’d have to start up x again. (startx)
For determining which driver is in use:
#/bin/sh
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver | grep ati | grep -v ^#
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver | grep fglrx | grep -v ^#
I got side-tracked.
November 30, 2008 at 17:18 | Posted in Adventures | Leave a commentTags: ati, fglrx, gaming, wine, xrandr
So instead of Katamari, I will be testing the fglrx drivers. *groan*. But seeing as I just patched Imperishable Night for English, and found out that it runs out of the box on wine, I won’t settle for 2.5fps, and I won’t settle for that piece of shit fglrx driver I have installed currently. Btw, in reference to my last fglrx post, no, that new one was completely fucked and I couldn’t see a damn thing on my screen. I had to restart X and edit xorg.conf to use the ati driver. I guess I’ll just download a crapload of drivers and see which one works. Wish me luck.
Okay, 8.10 seems to be working okay so far…
bash-3.1$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8087 Release
bash-3.1$ glxinfo|grep render
direct rendering: Yes
Okay, it works well, ~60fps ftw. The only thing is that I can’t go fullscreen — so I’m using a virtual desktop in combination with xrandr to optimize this shit as best I can. I get the feeling though, that when my screen is supposedly 800×600, my virtual desktop gets smaller than /its/ supposed 800×600. >_> brb investigating with gimp.
I knew it. It’s 640×480. Fuck that shit.
Also, regular video playback crashes my computer with the fglrx driver. That’s irritating.
Here goes nothing…
November 22, 2008 at 16:54 | Posted in Adventures | Leave a commentTags: ati, fglrx
$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release
and I’m updating to “8.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver”, ati-driver-installer-8-11-x86.x86_64.run. The ati driver that I seem to have used in ~/tech/compile is ati-driver-installer-8-7-x86.x86_64. So if this one fails, I’ll reinstall that one.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.552
here we go…
Blog at WordPress.com. | Theme: Pool by Borja Fernandez.
Entries and comments feeds.
