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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Martin on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @10:57

If I'm not totally incorrect, NVidia has implemented something very similar to AIGLX on their own.
ATI's proprietary drivers (fglrx) doesn't even support composite yet. But once they (hopefully) release their source code, the extensions will be added quickly to the drivers/it will be merged with the radeon driver.
Also noteworthy, is that I read somewhere that ATi was blocking the release of open source drivers that supported their newest card (the code was ready, but somehow the programmer wasn't allowed to release it, probably an NDA).

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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Troy Unrau on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @11:08

About NVidia: that is correct to the best of my knowledge.

Also, about fglrx, last I checked, it does support Composite, and it does support GL, but not both at the same time forcing you to choose. Normally, users will elect for GL, since you are reduced to using Mesa if you enable Composite.

Not sure about the ATI rumour, but when companies release the source code, they usually try to clean it up somewhat to ensure they aren't accidentally releasing IP that they do not own the rights to... think of the big delays in opensourcing java, for example, or star office :) A driver is a little smaller, but the principle is the same.

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