i recently upgraded to 2.6.33 with it's newly "unstaged" r500 kms - and i have to wonder, does this mean that this is as good as it'll get ?..
when i had last tried kms i had to disable it because of numerous bugs and deep performance loss. that was back in the 2.6.31 days.
although things seem pretty stable, i have to say that performance hasnt really improved. compositing with kwin is bareable but nowhere near "smooth" ... playing video is choppy, opengl performance is at best acceptable but often times hangs and drops ... and one time trying to play a small cell phone video full screen caused my whole computer to die.
so obviously, alot of work still has to be done. but im afraid this whole 'leaving of stading' means that you guys consider this driver 'good enough' ..
i just have to say, it just isnt good enough ..
when i had last tried kms i had to disable it because of numerous bugs and deep performance loss. that was back in the 2.6.31 days.
although things seem pretty stable, i have to say that performance hasnt really improved. compositing with kwin is bareable but nowhere near "smooth" ... playing video is choppy, opengl performance is at best acceptable but often times hangs and drops ... and one time trying to play a small cell phone video full screen caused my whole computer to die.
so obviously, alot of work still has to be done. but im afraid this whole 'leaving of stading' means that you guys consider this driver 'good enough' ..
i just have to say, it just isnt good enough ..
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