shared sympATI

It’s getting late now, and I just wanna lounge and not do work. Usually, I blog or tinker with anything,but lately I’ve been spending some time on how to get my video card to work properly on my linux. Right now I am using ATI RADEON X1550 on a mandriva 2007.1 OS.

Before I had this, I used to have an nvidia 7100GS, which worked properly. This means that I was able to get the 3D enabled, and have beryl installed. Now I am pretty much used to using beryl on my desktop, and I am comfortable with it. Sad to say, I am not able to do that on this ati card. This one works well on my windows, and even performs better. But thats the thing, my windows OS is just for games, so I don’t use it that much. What I’d really want is to enable 3D acceleration on my mandriva. I found out that the cause of this was actually a bug. I have participated on various forums regarding this, and am lucky enough that mandirva already knows about the problem.

So, I realized that there’s nothing I can do yet, but to wait for a bug fix, since I didn’t find any tweaks. Just this night, while I was checking on dig, I found an article, and was quite surprised. It seemed that there are more people who have problems similar to mine. Like what they say “Let’s convince ATi to make quality drivers or open-source them! For all of you who suffer from lack of desktop effects or compositioning!”

Now, I would definitely agree to this line. Although I’m not loosing hope on my card, but if I knew that this could happen, I could have just bought an nvidia card. Well, I not only that this was charged from my pocket, I can also charge this to experience. I hope this problem will be solved soon.

Here’s the dig article : http://jaiku.com/channel/twit/presence/6638800