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AMD Dropping R300-R500 Support In Catalyst Driver
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Originally posted by bridgmanEcomorph is marked "experimental, does not work on many graphics cards". Could I ask you to try a supported distro and window manager first, then identify issues specific to enlightenment and ecomorph separately ?
Originally posted by bridgmanRegarding 2D performance, I think you're talking about "features" more than "quality". My understanding is that the supported acceleration APIs (XAA, OpenGL( run really fast (which is what the Phoronix articles talk about) but some programs require EXA or equivalent acceleration to avoid SW fallbacks (which is where "glacial" comes in). What I think you're seeing there is the lack of EXA acceleration (which only recently became useful in the X stack), not a quality issue.
Originally posted by bridgmanWhich driver version are you using ?
Originally posted by bridgmanThe only pauses I have heard about so far were related to PAT kernel vs driver settings a couple of months ago. This may be something specific to the distro/wm you are using, not sure. Are you running elive or something else ?
Originally posted by bridgmanWe released the docs in Feb 08, over a year ago, right ? I was there
What do you think is missing ? Devs are already working on power management code for 5xx in the open drivers using the existing information. It's power management for 6xx and higher which still needs documentation.
Originally posted by bridgmanI'm sorry, what do reiserfs transactions have to do with fglrx ?
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Originally posted by Qaridariumin fakt for wine you need openGL3!!!!
you can'T get the maximum WINE Support witout DX9 or DX10 Power -->OpenGL3!
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According to heise online, a German IT news site, legacy support for R300 to 500 does mean driver updates will still happen once every 3 months. Not sure if that's the case for Windows only - they talk about the WHQL drivers there - but even once every 6 months (ie. with every xorg-server release) would be sufficient IMHO. On the other hand side Windows doesn't even have an open source alternative so it's more acceptable to drop support for older hardware on Linux in this respect anyways.
Source (in German): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/AMD-r...meldung/134111
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Originally posted by Inkaine View PostAccording to heise online, a German IT news site, legacy support for R300 to 500 does mean driver updates will still happen once every 3 months. Not sure if that's the case for Windows only - they talk about the WHQL drivers there - but even once every 6 months (ie. with every xorg-server release) would be sufficient IMHO. On the other hand side Windows doesn't even have an open source alternative so it's more acceptable to drop support for older hardware on Linux in this respect anyways.
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Originally posted by Inkaine View PostAccording to heise online, a German IT news site, legacy support for R300 to 500 does mean driver updates will still happen once every 3 months. Not sure if that's the case for Windows only - they talk about the WHQL drivers there - but even once every 6 months (ie. with every xorg-server release) would be sufficient IMHO. On the other hand side Windows doesn't even have an open source alternative so it's more acceptable to drop support for older hardware on Linux in this respect anyways.
Source (in German): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/AMD-r...meldung/134111Phoronix, Linux Hardware Reviews, Linux hardware benchmarks, Linux server benchmarks, Linux benchmarking, Desktop Linux, Linux performance, Open Source graphics, Linux How To, Ubuntu benchmarks, Ubuntu hardware, Phoronix Test Suite
I can confirm the Windows driver will receive quarterly updates, but there will be no such updates to the Catalyst Linux driver.Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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Originally posted by Inkaine View PostAccording to heise online, a German IT news site, legacy support for R300 to 500 does mean driver updates will still happen once every 3 months. Not sure if that's the case for Windows only - they talk about the WHQL drivers there - but even once every 6 months (ie. with every xorg-server release) would be sufficient IMHO. On the other hand side Windows doesn't even have an open source alternative so it's more acceptable to drop support for older hardware on Linux in this respect anyways.
Source (in German): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/AMD-r...meldung/134111
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OGL 2.0 cards can still have some of the features of OGL 3.0, just not full conformance. OGL 2.1 cards should, as far as I know, be capable of just about every OGL 3.0 feature with a good driver.
People using Debian, Gentoo, and Fedora need to not forget that their distros are completely composed of free software, and thus their binary driver support and QA is always lacking. Furthermore, they're not on the official support list for AMD, so it should come as no surprise that extra effort won't be made to support them.
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Originally posted by MostAwesomeDude View PostOGL 2.0 cards can still have some of the features of OGL 3.0, just not full conformance. OGL 2.1 cards should, as far as I know, be capable of just about every OGL 3.0 feature with a good driver.
People using Debian, Gentoo, and Fedora need to not forget that their distros are completely composed of free software, and thus their binary driver support and QA is always lacking. Furthermore, they're not on the official support list for AMD, so it should come as no surprise that extra effort won't be made to support them.
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