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    New ati linux driver

    apparently there is a new ATI Linux driver on the way that promises better performance than previous drivers. you should be able to download it shortly.

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    Re: New ati linux driver

    meh, don't hold your breath. ATi have been claiming they'll release stable drivers for half a decade.
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    Re: New ati linux driver

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    Re: New ati linux driver

    early benchmarks by phoronix show a 50%-900% speed increase, depending on hardware, as well as support for radeon hd 2xxx cards. still no aiglx though

    and amd have accounced they're gonna release full specs for r500 and below, including an open source reference 2d driver

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    Re: New ati linux driver

    still a scratch on that record.
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    Re: New ati linux driver

    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    early benchmarks by phoronix show a 50%-900% speed increase, depending on hardware, as well as support for radeon hd 2xxx cards. still no aiglx though

    and amd have accounced they're gonna release full specs for r500 and below, including an open source reference 2d driver
    There's no point in glxgears doing 100000000000fps if the drivers cack themselves at every given opportunity, performance was never the issue, stability was, and still is. Or do people have short memory spans when they get all excited?
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    Re: New ati linux driver

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    There's no point in glxgears doing 100000000000fps if the drivers cack themselves at every given opportunity, performance was never the issue, stability was, and still is. Or do people have short memory spans when they get all excited?
    i wouldn't say they were *unstable* so much as a royal pain the the arse. as you suggest, they cack themselves at any given opportunity, and they're simply harder to get working than nvidia drivers

    but cooperation with assorted distro maintainers ought to be helping on that front (i haven't used an ati card in an age, i'm guessing a bit)

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    Re: New ati linux driver

    No, they really were disgustingly, horrible, disfunctional, buggy drivers. I couldn't even get an x1950pro card working (at all) 4 months ago, and before that I had an x800 that would periodically crap itself, with no log entries to explain what happened, and less we not forget the X->tty->X->tty (hang) bug. It'll be a long time before I put any money towards an ATi card again, and it'll need to be me not hearing ATi related problems for a long time.
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    Re: New ati linux driver

    im optimistic, altho I have no XP with Linux + ATI together

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    Re: New ati linux driver

    I've learned from bitter experience that anything ATi + Linux + Optimistic = big disapointments. Expect the worst, that way you'll only have something to be pleased with when good things come, and no disappointments when something doesn't meet your expectations.
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    Re: New ati linux driver

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    No, they really were disgustingly, horrible, disfunctional, buggy drivers. I couldn't even get an x1950pro card working (at all) 4 months ago, and before that I had an x800 that would periodically crap itself, with no log entries to explain what happened, and less we not forget the X->tty->X->tty (hang) bug. It'll be a long time before I put any money towards an ATi card again, and it'll need to be me not hearing ATi related problems for a long time.
    hm, never used it in anger, just borrowed a radeon once to document the driver installation process

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    Re: New ati linux driver

    apparently amd are opening up the spec to the cards. allowing fully open source drivers to be available .

    http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/09/06/1335230.shtml
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    Re: New ati linux driver

    Aye, DirectHex pointed that out earlier, I knew about it since yesterday but I didn't think it worthy of discussion since we've heard all this noise from ATi before.
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    Re: New ati linux driver

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    I've learned from bitter experience that anything ATi + Linux + Optimistic = big disapointments. Expect the worst, that way you'll only have something to be pleased with when good things come, and no disappointments when something doesn't meet your expectations.
    well thanx 4 the forewarning,, ill stick with vista/xp for gaming atm and just use beryl/compiz-fusion in Linux as the most 3D heavy thing, co I really want that X1950 512mb for £85

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    Re: New ati linux driver

    benwoodcock - can you please speak in English, your two posts in this thread are really hard to understand
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    Re: New ati linux driver

    Quote Originally Posted by benwoodcock View Post
    well thanx 4 the forewarning,, ill stick with vista/xp for gaming atm and just use beryl/compiz-fusion in Linux as the most 3D heavy thing, co I really want that X1950 512mb for £85
    beryl/compiz mostly use a driver-end technology called AIGLX, which isn't found in any ATi drivers. using them on ATI requires use of a hacky alternative to Xorg, called Xgl.

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