My old ATI card is not supported any more by the ATI driver (fglrx) since version 8.28.8.

For this reason I can’t test the latest ATI driver which I provide in my repositories (for both Dapper and Edgy) and I can only test the Nvidia driver.

The ATI driver is causing more problems than the Nvidia one and I have a few users complaining about their problems with that driver in this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=255929

and here in the Italian forum

http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/index.php?topic=37927.0

But let’s get to the point: I need a new ATI card to test and tweak the driver which I provide.

The requirements for the card which I’m looking for are:

* it should be a cheap card
* it should be an AGP card (since my mobo has no PCI-E slots)
* it should be supported by the latest ATI driver.

Here is the list of the cards which are currently supported:
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.31.5.html

I’d rather buy a card of the X series (e.g. X800) so as to be sure that the support for it won’t be dropped soon.

If you have any suggestions about the model I might buy, please let me know.

Posted by Alberto Milone | November 18, 2006 4:07 am
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Envy 0.7.2 contains nvidia-xconfig (which won’t replace the one on your system) so that the composite extension is automatically disabled if you use the legacy driver.

Envy 0.7.2 installs driver 9629 and the legacy 7184.

If you need to use the beta driver 9626 you can use envy 0.6.1

Posted by Alberto Milone | November 17, 2006 11:12 am
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The Nvidia driver 9629 contains the following improvements:

* Added initial support for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap.

* Added new “Display Configuration” page in nvidia-settings.

* Improved workstation OpenGL performance in Xinerama.

* Added support for NVIDIA Quadro Plex.

* Added support for Quad SLI.

* Improved X driver error recovery.

* Improved workstation overlay performance.

* Added SMBus functionality to the Linux/i2c interface.

* Fixed DFP scaling support.

* Added support for OpenGL 2.1.

* Added new “TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder” X configuration option to control the order of display devices when in TwinView.

* Fixed some problems related to TV Out.

* Added new NVIDIA logo artwork to nvidia-settings and X driver

You can get it from my repositories for Ubuntu Edgy:

http://albertomilone.com/driver_edgy.html 

Or you can use Envy 0.7.1

The updates for my repositories for Ubuntu Dapper will be available soon.

WARNING: there is a bug which affects driver 9629 and the graphic cards with NV2x GPUs (e.g. Geforce 3 and 4) .

Read more about this bug

Posted by Alberto Milone | November 9, 2006 4:06 am
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