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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Robin on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @11:24

With fglrx, Xgl is needed to run Compiz/Beryl. fglrx will run in GL Mode, Composite is somehow emulated or so by XGL (afaik).

I wonder if kwin_composite will work with XGL and gl enabled fglrx...

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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Troy Unrau on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @11:38

Since it is doing much the same thing as Beryl, it should work. I've never played with Xgl though with fglrx. I got so upset with the drivers for my fairly new (onboard) radeon express 200, that I went and bought myself an nvidia card just to avoid the driver hassle.

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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Leo S on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @12:55

I share your pain, I have the same card, and it is absolutely atrocious. In the beginning it didn't even work in 2D mode. At least that works now, but the performance is dreadful, and fglrx is such an awful driver that I don't even want to try it anymore. I spent weeks on it in the past with more or less garbage results. My only hope now are the ATI open source drivers (if they actually release them).

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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Jack Ripoff on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @20:49

Opensource or not, their drivers will remain buggy.

Our real hope would be pressuring them to release their docs so we can code our own decent drivers.

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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by ac on Thursday 31/May/2007, @05:23

so now specs are better then code? the opensource driver community could easier write a new driver from scratch than fixing atis maybe-very-soon-opensource-driver?

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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Jack Ripoff on Thursday 31/May/2007, @05:58

"so now specs are better then code?"
As far as device drivers are concerned, it always has been.

"the opensource driver community could easier write a new driver from scratch than fixing atis maybe-very-soon-opensource-driver?"
Probably. That driver's just so buggy, it's code may be a complete spaghetti mess. I could be wrong about this thou, perhaps it may just be a matter of cleaning the code up.

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