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  • #81
    A very interesting post from another thread.

    Originally posted by allquixotic View Post
    I'd love to use the OSS driver, but they are not providing fast enough support for the HD5000 series. I have a HD5970. Unless I use fglrx, it's just an expensive SVGA card.

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    • #82
      Originally posted by mugginz
      Whether there are secrets or not has no relevance compared to when the hardware you buy can not even run the software you have.
      Says who?

      This is clearly for every user to decide individually.

      I can't play the Doom3 and Quake4 games I purchased several years ago using free drivers. I still bought an ATi this time.

      But the world doesn't revolve around the same feture set that you require. When someone needs hardware to run the software that they need to run then they have to buy hardware that will run it. If you have minimal requirements then you have more flexibility in which hardware you can purchase.
      Everybody has different requirements, and this is exactly my point.

      And for many people, the openness of the software is a very important consideration, far more important than running Windows games through an emulation layer mapping Direct3D calls to bad OpenGL calls.

      This is why a discussion about open drivers is certainly important in principle, even if it doesn't apply in every single case.

      And many are not in that same boat.
      Sure. I've never claimed that they were.

      Are you saying that all anyone ever needs a computer to do is the same things that you use a computer for.
      No, that's what you're saying. You are saying that if a computer can't run OpenGL3 through wine, then it's worthless, and anyone who isn't doing this is a fundie.

      Come on, this level of discussion is childish.

      Open drivers are clearly sufficient for a huge number of tasks at the moment, and the number of people using Linux who want open drivers is also a very significant number.

      Because of this alone, a discussion about the merits of open drivers cannot possibly be unimportant.

      And the advantage of the closed drivers is that they support more software and where that software is the software that you need to run then that makes the choices clearer.
      Sure! For some specific use cases.

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      • #83
        Yes but why is he buying a graphics card? Is it to do virtual terminals or is it to run games?
        Yes, but what are "ATi fanbois" who "always bring up open source" buying a graphics card for?

        This is what I was replying to. If this is off topic, then you made it offtopic, in an attempt to dismiss anyone with preference for open source as some lunatic.

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        • #84
          Originally posted by mugginz View Post
          And I mean native OpenGL software.
          This is and objective and a response with arguments, thx. Can prove this to me?

          No no... wait i know, i know... wine + GTA4, ummmm no, no, wait, wait... wine + WOW

          Seriously, i dont believe that any serious opengl application doesn't work with fglrx? but maybe i am wrong, or not?

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          • #85
            I'd also be interested to hear which native OpenGL applications do not work under fglrx.

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            • #86
              pssss, don't interrupt he is googling

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              • #87
                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                Whether there are secrets or not has no relevance compared to when the hardware you buy can not even run the software you have.
                Says who?
                Really? You're going to try to argue that it's better to use a driver because it's open source, even if it wont support the software you need to run?

                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                This is clearly for every user to decide individually.
                Exactly. If you need to run software that the FOSS ATI drivers wont support then you need to look elsewhere.

                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                I can't play the Doom3 and Quake4 games I purchased several years ago using free drivers. I still bought an ATi this time.
                That's your choice so surely you can see the folly in recommending someone buy hardware that wont run the software they want to run.

                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                Everybody has different requirements, and this is exactly my point.
                And mine as well. Where you have requirements that dont require a closed driver then you can select the open ones if they make sense for your use case.

                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                And for many people, the openness of the software is a very important consideration, far more important than running Windows games through an emulation layer mapping Direct3D calls to bad OpenGL calls.
                And for many people being able to run the software they want to run is more important then whether the drivers are open or closed.

                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                This is why a discussion about open drivers is certainly important in principle, even if it doesn't apply in every single case.
                But surely you can see that we need to keep the argument based in the reality of the situation and where someone needs what the closed drivers provide and the open ones don't provide it makes sense to select the drivers that work for that use case.


                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                And many are not in that same boat.
                Sure. I've never claimed that they were.
                But where you said
                Sure. I can't run OpenGL 3+ stuff using open drivers ATM.

                But I don't need to. So I can run software based on open specs and open drivers.

                And many people out there are in the same boat.
                That is a fairly opposite situation of the post that began this thread.

                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                Are you saying that all anyone ever needs a computer to do is the same things that you use a computer for.
                No, that's what you're saying. You are saying that if a computer can't run OpenGL3 through wine, then it's worthless, and anyone who isn't doing this is a fundie.
                No. The very reason that this discusion was started was that someone had a particular use case that indicated closed drivers would be desireable and then others suggested he modify his requirements in order to satify someone elses requirement that people should use open drivers.

                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                Are you saying that all anyone ever needs a computer to do is the same things that you use a computer for.
                Come on, this level of discussion is childish.
                You are describing your use case but this is a thread about a different use case. You can't say the OP should use open drivers based on your use case instead of his. I've also said a few times now that if you have simpler requirements then that opens up the open drivers as an option for you but not for him.

                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                Open drivers are clearly sufficient for a huge number of tasks at the moment, and the number of people using Linux who want open drivers is also a very significant number.
                Yes but for others they're not sufficient. So what! But for the OPs requirements closed drivers are indicated, not open ones.

                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                Because of this alone, a discussion about the merits of open drivers cannot possibly be unimportant.
                In the context of the OP's post it actually is quite irrelevant.

                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                And the advantage of the closed drivers is that they support more software and where that software is the software that you need to run then that makes the choices clearer.
                Sure! For some specific use cases.
                Like the ones described by the OP

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                • #88
                  Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                  Yes but why is he buying a graphics card? Is it to do virtual terminals or is it to run games?
                  Yes, but what are "ATi fanbois" who "always bring up open source" buying a graphics card for?
                  I don't care why they're buying a card. I do care though when people are discussing use cases that indicate closed source drivers are required and then others try to de-rail the discussion with open vs closed driver discussions.

                  Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                  This is what I was replying to. If this is off topic, then you made it offtopic, in an attempt to dismiss anyone with preference for open source as some lunatic.
                  The open vs closed source driver discussion isn't relevant given the OPs requirements. I'm not the origin of that off-topic topic in this thread.

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                  • #89
                    Originally posted by Jimbo View Post
                    This is and objective and a response with arguments, thx. Can prove this to me?

                    No no... wait i know, i know... wine + GTA4, ummmm no, no, wait, wait... wine + WOW

                    Seriously, i dont believe that any serious opengl application doesn't work with fglrx? but maybe i am wrong, or not?
                    I think you'll find that you are indeed wrong on this count.

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                    • #90
                      pingufunkybeat the last time i tried torchlight with wine i was astonished by the results of my state-of-the-art ati 4350

                      wine + fglrx 29 fps
                      wine + opensource 20 fps

                      Currently ati opensource cannot compete in 3d, but in 2d is superb. But the rhythm of developing has increased a lot (see mesa mailing list). Maybe in less than a year open source could be very competitive at 3d too!

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