On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 15:49:03 +0700, Андрей wrote in message
<20181230114858.muGW7bIv@???>:

> Приветствую.
>
>
> В Mon, 24 Dec 2018 14:19:14 +0100, ты писал(а):
>
> > I only cared about video performance and quality in FlightGear,
> > where the radeon (and nouveau!) driver proved best on my hardware
> > (9250, 9800, X850XT-PE, HD4890 and GeForce GTS 250 (came with the
> > HD4890) at 2048x1536x32bpp@5 to 60Hz, and ATI Mobility FireGL
> > V5200 and Nvidia Quadro FX 770M at 1920x1200x32bpp@7 to 60Hz).
>
> Well, i have opposite opinion. I tried "nouveau" and "nvidia" drivers
> on "ASCII", in the "Torcs" and "OpenArena" games and saw difference in
> game speed for the old hardware.

..ok, which video cards?

..what kernel, X, cpu, memory size, etc?

..how much higher framerates?

> Also, i see low speed for the old ATI
> videocard, that i'm sure could far better in case i change from the
> radeon driver to fglrx.

..good luck with that.
Nvidia has been far better at supporting GNU/Linux than ATI or AMD,
for marketing, commercial etc internal politics reasons:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Graphics_drivers_configuration#A_note_on_free_drivers
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Problematic_video_cards


> So, i suppose, though you're satisfied w/ the
> speed of your games, i suppose, that have ye installed the bond
> drivers, the speed/quality of picture would be far higher than you
> enjoy now.
>
> So, my question is fo now, Are there any plans on packageing the fglrx
> driver for the old ATI cards.

..no, neither here or over at Debian.org, AFAICT.
https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary#wheezy-legacy
https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary
https://packages.debian.org/search?&keywords=fglrx

..could be politics, e.g. squeezing AMD out on its opinion on systemd?:
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#gnome-fglrx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_device_driver#ATI/AMD


..your best shot is look for legacy drivers at
https://www.amd.com/en/support


..maybe you are the right guy to write an install wrapper script that
picks the best proprietary driver from https://www.amd.com/en/support
for any ATI/AMD card?

..e.g. side by side, with the free driver on display 0:0 and fglrx on
0:1, or run the free driver in runlevel 2 like now and put fglrx on
runlevel 3 and hop between them with "init 3" and "init 2" etc, or add
a runlevel 3 fglrx or nvidia boot stanza for every current free driver
boot stanza in the grub menu, so we can get the frame rate race going
again.


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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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best case, worst case, and just in case.