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== ATI fglrx driver ==
[http://secondomemort.fiberia.com | Second Home Mortgage]
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This is a binary-only driver which supports 3D acceleration.
[http://secondmortgaget.fiberia.com | Second Mortgage And Home Equity Loan]
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[http://secondmortgages.fiberia.com | Second Mortgage]
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Home page: https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=356
[http://secondmortgager.fiberia.com | Second Mortgage Bad Credit]
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[http://secondmortgaged.fiberia.com | Second Mortgage Lender]
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== Status ==
[http://refinancemortgaw.fiberia.com | Refinance Mortgage Loan]
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Current version: 8.21.7 (19th January 2006)
[http://refinancemortga7.fiberia.com | Refinance Mortgage Rate]
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[http://refinancemortga2.fiberia.com | Refinance Mortgage Interest Rate]
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Major changes:
[http://refinancehomemtg.fiberia.com | Refinance Home Mortgage Interest Rate]
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* 8.21.7: initial OpenGL 2.0 support
[http://refinancehomem.fiberia.com | Refinance Home Mortgage Rate]
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* 8.20.8: fixed resume issues, fixed compile problems with kernels 2.6.13 and 2.6.14
[http://refinance2ndmo.fiberia.com | Refinance 2nd Mortgage]
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* 8.19.10: has added suspend / resume and dynamic GPU power management support. Using vbetool is no longer required (tested and successful with T43p).
[http://onlinemortgageyt.fiberia.com | Online Mortgage Advice]
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[http://onlinemortgage1.fiberia.com | Online Mortgage Application]
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== Known problems and solutions ==
[http://ohiomortgage.fiberia.com | Ohio Mortgage]
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See [[Problems with fglrx]].
[http://newjerseymortg.fiberia.com | New Jersey Mortgage Loan]
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[http://ndmortgageref21.fiberia.com | 2nd Mortgage Refinance]
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== Packages ==
[http://ndmortgageratge.fiberia.com | 2nd Mortgage Rate]
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The ATI drivers have explicit permission for repackaging and redistribution of the Linux drivers. Many distributions are supported within the installer, and many more repackaged by external developers. Please visit the  [http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Category:Distributions Distribution Page at the Unofficial ATI driver Wiki]
[http://ndmortgageloan2.fiberia.com | 2nd Mortgage Loan]
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[http://ndmortgage2.fiberia.com | 2nd Mortgage]
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*{{Debian}} packages: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html
[http://ndloanmortgag2.fiberia.com | 2nd Loan Mortgage]
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** These packages have been added to Debian unstable as "fglrx-driver", so you can now apt-get them and use module-assistant to install (currently v8.20.8-1).
[http://ndhomemortg2ag.fiberia.com | 2nd Home Mortgage]
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*{{SUSE}} packages: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/
[http://nationalcitymota.fiberia.com | National City Mortgage]
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*{{Gentoo}} {{cmdroot|emerge x11-drivers/ati-drivers}}
[http://mortgagesecond6.fiberia.com | Mortgage Second]
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*{{Fedora}} packages: http://rpm.livna.org
[http://mortgagesanjosqs.fiberia.com | Mortgage San Jose California]
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** For stock Fedora kernels: {{cmdroot|yum install kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r) ati-fglrx }}
[http://mortgageresident.fiberia.com | Mortgage Residential]
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** Creating and installing a custom RPM for a custom-compiled kernel on {{Fedora}}:
[http://mortgagerefinanw.fiberia.com | Mortgage Refinance Second]
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# yum install ati-fglrx
[http://mortgagerefinanq.fiberia.com | Mortgage Refinance California]
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# VER=8.20.8.1-0.lvn.1.4  # copy version string from output of above command
[http://mortgagerefinan7.fiberia.com | Mortgage Refinancing Company]
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# wget http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/SRPMS.lvn/ati-fglrx-$VER.src.rpm
[http://mortgagerateregs.fiberia.com | Mortgage Rate Refinance]
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# rpmbuild --rebuild --target $(uname -m) --define "ksrc /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build" --without userland ati-fglrx-$VER.src.rpm
[http://mortgagepennsyl.fiberia.com | Mortgage Pennsylvania Refinance]
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# rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/$(uname -m)/kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r)-$VER.$(uname -m).rpm
[http://mortgageohio.fiberia.com | Mortgage Ohio]
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[http://mortgageloanrate.fiberia.com | Mortgage Loan Rate]
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== User experience ==
[http://mortgageloanpra.fiberia.com | Mortgage Loan Processor]
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[http://mortgageloane3.fiberia.com | Mortgage Loan Refinance And Debt Consolidation]
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How much is the speed gain versus the opensource drivers?
[http://mortgageloan.fiberia.com | Mortgage Loan]
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[http://mortgagelifein12.fiberia.com | Mortgage Life Insurance]
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- On the old drivers, I've noticed appx 40% speed gain with ATI fglrx vs open source drivers. However, there are issues with freezing/garbage after suspend, garbage when resizing desktop (ctrl-alt-plus, ctrl-alt-minus), and garbage while using VMware. The current 8.14.13 has shown 400% improvement over using "radeon" or "ati" in xorg.conf. 1200FPS glxgears! (''note that glxgears isnt a benchmark tool, its so simple that its value is without any meaning... you can only compare glxgears using the same drivers/machine, if you change any of then you can have higher/lower values and in real life programs/games happend the opposite. Think in the car engine rpm, higher rpm in the same car usually its a faster car, change anything and its meaningless. ie: gears, truck, wheel size, etc make it useless'')
[http://mortgageinsurani.fiberia.com | Mortgage Insurance Quote]
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[http://mortgagebrokerr.fiberia.com | Mortgage Broker In California]
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NOTE: 2D acceleration may be disabled when 3D acceleration is enabled. This comes from the Xorg.conf file the fglrx driver provides
[http://mortgageapplicat.fiberia.com | Mortgage Application]
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  # === OpenGL Overlay ===
[http://lowmortgagerate.fiberia.com | Low Mortgage Rate Refinance]
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  # Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
[http://loanmortgagereg.fiberia.com | Loan Mortgage Refinance]
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  #      will be disabled automatically
[http://loanmortgage.fiberia.com | Loan Mortgage]
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      Option "OpenGLOverlay"              "1"
[http://interestmortgagt.fiberia.com | Interest Mortgage Rate Refinance]
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[http://interestmortgag3.fiberia.com | Interest Mortgage Rate]
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Just a note to the above. The 2D acceleration for that option refers to video overlay. You can use either regular Xv video overlay or make the video an opengl texture and let the OpenGL engine scale your video. It has nothing to do with 2D drawing primitives. Further, your mileage on performance may vary depending on what card you have. The open-source drivers don't support newer cards, while the ATI drivers don't support older cards.
[http://interestmortgag.fiberia.com | Interest Mortgage]
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[http://insurancemortga.fiberia.com | Insurance Mortgage]
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== Useful links ==
[http://insurancelifem32.fiberia.com | Insurance Life Mortgage]
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* [http://www.ati.com/products/catalyst/linux.html ATI Linux Driver FAQ]
[http://insurance2mortga.fiberia.com | Insurance Mortgage Quote]
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* [http://www.rage3d.com/content/articles/atilinuxhowto/ ATI Radeon Linux How-To]
[http://illinoismortgagt.fiberia.com | Illinois Mortgage Rate]
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* [http://www.rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=61&daysprune=30&order=asc&sort=title Rage3D Linux Discussion Forum]
[http://hommortgagera1.fiberia.com | Home Mortgage Rate Refinance]
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* [http://www.driverheaven.net/forumdisplay.php?f=103 Radeon Driver Forum at Driverheaven]
[http://homemortgagera.fiberia.com | Home Mortgage Rate]
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* [http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html Gentoo ATI Radeon FAQ]
[http://homemortgagelo.fiberia.com | Home Mortgage Loan Rate]
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* [http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-374745-highlight-t42+ati+dri.html Gentoo T42 ATI. DRI + xorg driver]
[http://homemortgagein2.fiberia.com | Home Mortgage Insurance]
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* [http://ati.cchtml.com/ Unofficial community ATI bugzilla] - tracks bugs in the driver. Might be monitored by ATI ([http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1333438751&postcount=386], [http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1333439009&postcount=390]).
[http://homeloanmortgag.fiberia.com | Home Loan Mortgage Refinance]
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[http://homeloanmortga1.fiberia.com | Home Loan Mortgage Rate]
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== ThinkPads that may be supported ==
[http://homeloanmortga.fiberia.com | Home Loan Mortgage Second]
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Supported chips, as found in select IBM ThinkPads:
[http://homeinterest1mo.fiberia.com | Home Interest Mortgage Rate Refinance]
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* [[ATI Mobility FireGL 9000]]
[http://homeinsurancemo.fiberia.com | Home Insurance Mortgage]
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** {{T40p}}
[http://homeequitymort1.fiberia.com | Home Equity Mortgage]
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* [[ATI Mobility FireGL T2]]
[http://homeequitymort.fiberia.com | Home Equity Mortgage Loan]
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** {{R50p}}
[http://gmacmortgage.fiberia.com | Gmac Mortgage]
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** {{T41p}}, {{T42p}}
[http://floridarefinanc4.fiberia.com | Florida Refinance Mortgage]
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* [[ATI Mobility FireGL V3200]]
[http://floridamortgagew.fiberia.com | Florida Mortgage Company]
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** {{T43p}}
[http://floridamortgagea.fiberia.com | Florida Mortgage Refinance]
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* [[ATI Mobility Radeon 9000]]
[http://floridamortgage7.fiberia.com | Florida Mortgage Lender]
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** {{R50}}, {{R51}}
[http://floridamortgage4.fiberia.com | Florida Mortgage]
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** {{T40}}, {{T41}}, {{T42}}
[http://floridainmortgee.fiberia.com | Florida In Mortgage Refinance]
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* [[ATI Mobility Radeon 9600]]
[http://fixedratemortg12.fiberia.com | Fixed Rate Mortgage]
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** {{T42}}
[http://fixedmortgagerat.fiberia.com | Fixed Mortgage Rate]
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* [[ATI Mobility Radeon X300]]
[http://fixedmortgag30.fiberia.com | 30 Fixed Mortgage Rate Year]
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** {{R52}}
[http://fhamortgage.fiberia.com | Fha Mortgage]
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** {{T43}}
[http://ditechmortgage32.fiberia.com | Ditech Mortgage Loan]
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** {{Z60m}}
[http://ditechloanmort.fiberia.com | Ditech Loan Mortgage]
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* [[ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200M]]
[http://debtconsolidati1.fiberia.com | Debt Consolidation Mortgage Loan]
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** {{R51e}}
[http://dailymortgagerq.fiberia.com | Daily Mortgage Rate]
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* [[ATI Mobility Radeon X600]]
[http://currentmortgage3.fiberia.com | Current Mortgage Rate]
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** {{Z60m}}
[http://currentinterestq.fiberia.com | Current Interest Mortgage Rate]
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[http://currenmortgaget.fiberia.com | Current Mortgage Interest Rate]
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[[Category:Drivers]]
[http://countrywidemorta.fiberia.com | Countrywide Mortgage]
 
[http://consolidationdet.fiberia.com | Consolidation Debt Loan Mortgage]
 
[http://consolidationde.fiberia.com | Consolidation Debt Loan Mortgage Refinance]
 
[http://connecticutmortg.fiberia.com | Connecticut Mortgage Refinance]
 
[http://companymortgage1.fiberia.com | Company Mortgage Refinance]
 
[http://companyflorida4.fiberia.com | Company Florida Mortgage]
 
[http://coloradomortgag5.fiberia.com | Colorado Mortgage Loan]
 
[http://coloradocompany.fiberia.com | Colorado Company Home Loan Mortgage]
 
[http://citymortgagenas.fiberia.com | City Mortgage National]
 
[http://chasemanhattan3.fiberia.com | Chase Manhattan Mortgage]
 
[http://californiamortgf.fiberia.com | California Mortgage Refinance]
 
[http://californiamortge.fiberia.com | California Mortgage]
 
[http://californiamortg3.fiberia.com | California Mortgage Broker]
 
[http://californiamortg.fiberia.com | California Mortgage Rate]
 
[http://californialoanca.fiberia.com | California Loan Mortgage]
 
[http://calculatormortge.fiberia.com | Calculator Mortgage]
 
[http://broker1californi.fiberia.com | Broker California Mortgage]
 
[http://bestrefinanceqh.fiberia.com | Equity Home Loan Mortgage Second]
 
[http://bestrefinanceqh.fiberia.com | Best Refinance Home Mortgage Loan Rate]
 
[http://bestrefinancem12.fiberia.com | Best Refinance Mortgage Rate]
 
[http://bestmortgagerate.fiberia.com | Best Mortgage Rate]
 
[http://bestmortgagerat.fiberia.com | Best Mortgage Rate Refinance]
 
[http://bestmortgagelows.fiberia.com | Best Mortgage Loan]
 
[http://bestloanmortga.fiberia.com | Best Loan Mortgage]
 
[http://besthome2loanm.fiberia.com | Best Home Loan Mortgage Rate Refinance]
 
[http://badcreditmortggt.fiberia.com | Bad Credit Mortgage Second]
 
[http://badcreditmortge.fiberia.com | Bad Credit Mortgage Lender]
 
[http://badcreditloaba.fiberia.com | Bad Credit Loan Mortgage]
 
[http://badcredithomeqw.fiberia.com | Bad Credit Home Loan Mortgage]
 
[http://badcredithomegt.fiberia.com | Bad Credit Home Mortgage Loan]
 
[http://badcredithomeg1.fiberia.com | Bad Credit Home Mortgage]
 
[http://badcredit1mortg.fiberia.com | Bad Credit Mortgage Memphis]
 
[http://arizonamortgageq.fiberia.com | Arizona Mortgage Rate]
 
[http://arizonamortgage1.fiberia.com | Arizona Mortgage Lender]
 
[http://arizonamortgage.fiberia.com | Arizona Mortgage Loan]
 
[http://arizonaloanmorw.fiberia.com | Arizona Loan Mortgage]
 
[http://applicationmorte.fiberia.com | Application Mortgage]
 
[http://applicationmort1.fiberia.com | Application Mortgage Online]
 
[http://advicemortgagew.fiberia.com | Advice Mortgage Online]
 
[http://adjustablerateqw.fiberia.com | Adjustable Rate Mortgage]
 
[http://adjustablemortga.fiberia.com | Adjustable Mortgage Rate]
 

Revision as of 08:54, 23 January 2006

ATI fglrx driver

This is a binary-only driver which supports 3D acceleration.

Home page: https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=356

Status

Current version: 8.21.7 (19th January 2006)

Major changes:

  • 8.21.7: initial OpenGL 2.0 support
  • 8.20.8: fixed resume issues, fixed compile problems with kernels 2.6.13 and 2.6.14
  • 8.19.10: has added suspend / resume and dynamic GPU power management support. Using vbetool is no longer required (tested and successful with T43p).

Known problems and solutions

See Problems with fglrx.

Packages

The ATI drivers have explicit permission for repackaging and redistribution of the Linux drivers. Many distributions are supported within the installer, and many more repackaged by external developers. Please visit the Distribution Page at the Unofficial ATI driver Wiki

# yum install ati-fglrx
# VER=8.20.8.1-0.lvn.1.4  # copy version string from output of above command
# wget http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/SRPMS.lvn/ati-fglrx-$VER.src.rpm
# rpmbuild --rebuild --target $(uname -m) --define "ksrc /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build" --without userland ati-fglrx-$VER.src.rpm
# rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/$(uname -m)/kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r)-$VER.$(uname -m).rpm

User experience

How much is the speed gain versus the opensource drivers?

- On the old drivers, I've noticed appx 40% speed gain with ATI fglrx vs open source drivers. However, there are issues with freezing/garbage after suspend, garbage when resizing desktop (ctrl-alt-plus, ctrl-alt-minus), and garbage while using VMware. The current 8.14.13 has shown 400% improvement over using "radeon" or "ati" in xorg.conf. 1200FPS glxgears! (note that glxgears isnt a benchmark tool, its so simple that its value is without any meaning... you can only compare glxgears using the same drivers/machine, if you change any of then you can have higher/lower values and in real life programs/games happend the opposite. Think in the car engine rpm, higher rpm in the same car usually its a faster car, change anything and its meaningless. ie: gears, truck, wheel size, etc make it useless)

NOTE: 2D acceleration may be disabled when 3D acceleration is enabled. This comes from the Xorg.conf file the fglrx driver provides

  # === OpenGL Overlay ===
  # Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
  #       will be disabled automatically
      Option "OpenGLOverlay"              "1"

Just a note to the above. The 2D acceleration for that option refers to video overlay. You can use either regular Xv video overlay or make the video an opengl texture and let the OpenGL engine scale your video. It has nothing to do with 2D drawing primitives. Further, your mileage on performance may vary depending on what card you have. The open-source drivers don't support newer cards, while the ATI drivers don't support older cards.

Useful links

ThinkPads that may be supported

Supported chips, as found in select IBM ThinkPads: