TheeMahn wrote:I too see issues Xorg in their infinite wisdom have decided to remove support for accelerated graphics with ATI based Video cards I have 2 in my machine I build Ultimate Edition with... A true hassle in itself. I miss Compiz an issue I will resolve when I have time.
In all fairness if you are speaking of the fact that you cant use fglrx anymore. The blame for that goes to ati for deciding that any gpu not in they're hd series is "legacy". And just abandoning support. Its times like this that i wish ati would take a few pointers from nvidia. Yes nvidia places gpu's in the "legacy" category. But still updates them to support newer kernals and xservers when needed. Ati just basically said fu*k you.
I actually have compiz running on my x200 with the opensource driver. Now the original one tho. I posted a little piece about it in our chat room. second page from the end as of right now i believe. That driver may or may not work for you though. You could try adding "radeonhd" to xorg.conf too. I believe that driver works with your card (r500 core and up). Dont think crossfire works with the opensource drivers though. If your not happy with the performance of the opensource radeonhd driver (i think it has to be forced...defaults to radeon). That radeon-rewrite is worth a try. Took me from around 250fps up to nearly 800 now. Still tweaking xorg to see if i can sqeeze any more out.
I just hope that now that ati has discontinued support for a large number of they're gpu's they will now release the specs on them and we will get better opensource drivers. Only possible positive that can come out of the whole situation.
