ATI: Texttures black and fuzzy

[Flickering]

I'm using a freshly downloaded client, and the latest ATI drivers (Apparently the first ones that dont destabilize my machine, yay). Upon login I get what looks like the game except that most of the textures seem to be plain light blue, or fuzzy and black (Screenshot attached). {It's fairly playable if all you want to do is check something and you know which black blob it is!}

I'm launching the client in the right directory, with -nosound and -geometry=1400x1000 (This happens without the geometry setting also)

Machine specs:
IBM Thinkpad T41p (1.5GB Ram)
ATI FireGL T2 Mobility

Debian (Mix of testing and unstable due to hardware), 2.6.4 kernel.
XFree86 4.3.0

Any suggestions?

[Pluribus]

Try running it with the -nofrg10 and let me know if better / worse same. If better, send me a copy of your egenesis.bug file (pluribus@pluribus.org) I REALLY need to find a way to blacklist the latest ATI drivers...

[Pluribus]

Run the client -noext for now... Apparently the client will consume all memory and kill the machine in that state... (Interesting since neither nvidia drivers nor 3.9 drivers do that , I have to assume it is a driver issue. No response from my bug report to ATI so in the mean time, I will test a blacklist for it in the morning...

[Flickering]

Thanks for looking into it this far, the -noext option allowed me to run the client and retain control of my system, definitely a good thing.. I also managed to find a copy of the latest 3.9 ATI drivers and those seem to be stable on my machine as well as with the client, so for now I've rolled back to them. Hopefully ATI will fix their (numerous) issues soon.

[Pluribus]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, if you havent please report the driver problems HERE (http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/index.asp)

[Pluribus]

ATI Driver 3.11.1 officially blacklisted by ATITD... I currently detect it and disable use of all non-required OpenGL extensions. Again please complain to ATI at the link in my previous message.

[ArmEagle]

Man i wish i (also) had an ATI card, just so i could fill in that form too, ;P

[extremulus]

I filed a report as suggested, having the same issue on Radeon 9800 Pro/Suse 9.1/Kernel 2.6.5-7.104

Extremulus