What Should I Expect of ATI 3200 On-board Graphics?
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From: Jim Beard on 9 Nov 2009 22:41 I have a new Gateway 4300DX 64-bit AMD 7450 cpus with the ATI 3200 graphics on the motherboard. I have installed the Mandriva Linux 2010.0 OS, and there is some question in my mind about what this combination should do. Hardware detection says, Module: Card:ATI Radeon HD 2000 and later (radeonhd/fglrx) The XFdrake gui offers me two radeonhd drivers, one (fglrx). This one works, but XFdrake disables Composite and that precludes 3D. I deleted the disable in xorg.conf and am getting some eye-candy features, but not what I expected. The other driver provides narrow vertical color bars, but does not work. I tried a Google for specs on the 3200, but all I found was gereral product specs that tell me little about what I should expect to see. Where should I be able to find data on what this chip-set will do? I do not need heavy-duty graphics (system that went out had an nVIdia GeForce 6100 motherboard/7300 video card, and that was ok, though not real great with Compiz or Matisse 3D), but I would like to get whatever this new system has to offer. The system does have 6GB of RAM, so that should not be a major problem. Linux xx.home.invalid 2.6.31.5-tmb-desktop-1mdv #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 24 09:01:40 EDT 2009 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 7450 Dual-Core Processor GNU/Linux Cheers! jim b. -- UNIX is not user unfriendly; it merely expects users to be computer-friendly.
From: KCB on 10 Nov 2009 18:29 "Jim Beard" <jdbeard(a)patriot.net> wrote in message news:to6dnfPIcL5DfWXXnZ2dnUVZ_qSdnZ2d(a)posted.lerostechnologies... >I have a new Gateway 4300DX 64-bit AMD 7450 cpus with the > ATI 3200 graphics on the motherboard. I have installed > the Mandriva Linux 2010.0 OS, and there is some question > in my mind about what this combination should do. > > Hardware detection says, > Module: ?Card:ATI Radeon HD 2000 and later (radeonhd/fglrx) > > The XFdrake gui offers me two radeonhd drivers, one > (fglrx). This one works, but XFdrake disables Composite > and that precludes 3D. I deleted the disable in xorg.conf > and am getting some eye-candy features, but not what > I expected. > > The other driver provides narrow vertical color bars, but > does not work. > > I tried a Google for specs on the 3200, but all I found was > gereral product specs that tell me little about what I should > expect to see. > > Where should I be able to find data on what this chip-set > will do? > > I do not need heavy-duty graphics (system that went out had > an nVIdia GeForce 6100 motherboard/7300 video card, and that > was ok, though not real great with Compiz or Matisse 3D), > but I would like to get whatever this new system has to offer. > The system does have 6GB of RAM, so that should not be a > major problem. > > Linux xx.home.invalid 2.6.31.5-tmb-desktop-1mdv #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 24 > 09:01:40 EDT 2009 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 7450 Dual-Core Processor GNU/Linux > > Cheers! > > jim b. I'm not a linux user, but ATI does offer linux drivers. Maybe you just need different drivers. here: (it may wrap) http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.7&product=2.7.4.3.3.3.1&lang=English Or, the FAQ might help: http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html An article at Tomshardware.com about the chipset with integrated HD3200 graphics, but they used windows for benchmarks: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-780g-chipset,1785.html
From: Jim Beard on 11 Nov 2009 19:41 KCB wrote: > "Jim Beard" <jdbeard(a)patriot.net> wrote in message > news:to6dnfPIcL5DfWXXnZ2dnUVZ_qSdnZ2d(a)posted.lerostechnologies... >> I have a new Gateway 4300DX 64-bit AMD 7450 cpus with the >> ATI 3200 graphics on the motherboard. I have installed >> the Mandriva Linux 2010.0 OS, and there is some question >> in my mind about what this combination should do. >> >> Hardware detection says, >> Module: ?Card:ATI Radeon HD 2000 and later (radeonhd/fglrx) >> >> The XFdrake gui offers me two radeonhd drivers, one >> (fglrx). This one works, but XFdrake disables Composite >> and that precludes 3D. I deleted the disable in xorg.conf >> and am getting some eye-candy features, but not what >> I expected. >> >> The other driver provides narrow vertical color bars, but >> does not work. >> >> I tried a Google for specs on the 3200, but all I found was >> gereral product specs that tell me little about what I should >> expect to see. >> >> Where should I be able to find data on what this chip-set >> will do? >> >> I do not need heavy-duty graphics (system that went out had >> an nVIdia GeForce 6100 motherboard/7300 video card, and that >> was ok, though not real great with Compiz or Matisse 3D), >> but I would like to get whatever this new system has to offer. >> The system does have 6GB of RAM, so that should not be a >> major problem. >> >> Linux xx.home.invalid 2.6.31.5-tmb-desktop-1mdv #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 24 >> 09:01:40 EDT 2009 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 7450 Dual-Core Processor GNU/Linux >> >> Cheers! >> >> jim b. > > I'm not a linux user, but ATI does offer linux drivers. Maybe you just need > different drivers. > here: (it may wrap) > http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.7&product=2.7.4.3.3.3.1&lang=English > > Or, the FAQ might help: > http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html > > An article at Tomshardware.com about the chipset with integrated HD3200 > graphics, but they used windows for benchmarks: > http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-780g-chipset,1785.html I installed the ATI fglrx driver, which very systematically removed the Mandriva-packaged fglrx driver and installed itself in its place. Oddly, the ATI installer came in an 83MB package,and there was much compiling during the install. Performance seems about the same. Apparently the Mandriva packager did a good job in setting things up for install on my machine. The other Radeon HD driver apparently is one of the open-source projects. It does not work on my system. Thanks for the links. They were useful, and likely will be in for more use in the future. Cheers! jim b. -- UNIX is not user unfriendly; it merely expects users to be computer-friendly.
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