Better detection

[DrPreston]

You should work on some better hardware detection. Sabayon comes with the proprietary ATI drivers, but I haven't been able to get any kind of hardware accelerationon my box, no matter what I've tried.
Freespire is able to detect your hardware and setup the drivers correctly even when running live off the cd. glxgears gave me an average of 6500 fps. No tweaking or anything, just livecd boot.
I'd like to see that it sabayon.
So far the only distros that I have been able to get ATI drivers to work have been openSUSE 10.0/10.1 and Freespire.

[whilo]

As always post as much information as possible:

- hardware actually used (your graphics card, try the "lspci" command)
- xorg.conf after the livecd boot
- xorg.conf of freespire/opensuse

Cheers,
whilo

[cvill64]

if you are using xgl (which most likely you are if you're talking about that) then that is a KNOWN issue that cannot be fixed

[Darksurf]

Do you even need, the proprietary drivers?? Or can you use the opensource ones. If you want acceleration with an ATI-driver that is proprietary, Good Luck. They've always sucked, and glxgears never gave accurate ratings or speeds with them. You'd have to be using the opensource ones. What card do you have???[/quote]

[whilo]

Do you even need, the proprietary drivers??

Most newer ATI cards need the fglrx driver.

[DrPreston]

It's a 9800 pro, and you can't get 3d acceleration without the fglrx drivers.
glxgears may not be accurate, but I think that when the open source drivers give you 100fps and fglrx gives you 6000fps, that's nothing to sneeze at.
Besides, how else am I supposed to play AlienArena, or any other 3d game?


My post wasn't for help, it was a suggestion, and that is to implement better hardware detection. If freespire can do it, then sabayon can do it.

[Darksurf]

you have a 9800 . That makes since. You could just emerge ati-drivers. There are newer drivers out. Just went into the overlay today so you'll need to layman -s sabayon first.

[DrPreston]

Don't even go there. When I tried that, I got into a HUGE mess. First, portage would tell me that it was unable to calculate kernel version, so I get on the x86 sabayon forum, and I emerge the kernel sources and do some zcat thing and it still doesn't work. Isn't there a way to use ATI's installer? I tried that and it didn't work.

[cvill64]

emerge will properly do everything for you... I think you just need to upgrade to new gentoo sources and recompile the kernel for them (I have a feeling you emerged different sources than the kernel installed which is why it didn't work the first time around) and then you can recompile the newer ati drivers and then reboot