Re: System very unstable

[Kristofer T. Karas]

On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 07:34, David S. Miller wrote:
> This is old news, they opensource the drivers at a later date,
> this is how it's always worked with ATI.

Note that ATI now has a binary driver available that supports the 8500,
written by their German development group.  Available via their standard
"find a driver" page, using Linux as OS.  See, for example,
http://mirror.ati.com/support/products/pc/radeon8500/linux/radeon8500linuxdrivers.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RADEON+8500LE&cmdNext=GO%21

The scripts that build a kernel module and link it against their library
work pretty well and are, to their credit, not impossibly tied to one
distro over another.  :-)  I run Slackware.

	ktk@madmax:~$ glxgears 
	10474 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2094.800 FPS
	10797 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2159.400 FPS

Kris