Hats off to AMD/ATI on this release.
I, for one, have to say that I am VERY happy with this release. I only recently entered the ATI/Linux arena when I bought my laptop, but I have used ATI products with windows for several years. Obviously, the performance isn't what everyone hoped for, I, personally, am VERY happy looking at the performance in Ubuntu versus the performance of the last ATI proprietary drivers. I don't play any games, haven't really since the original Unreal Tournament, so maybe that has something to do with it. I have, however, used compiz under feisty/gutsy, with both the XGL method and the proprietary drivers. Performance without AIGLX was mediocre at best. After doing a fresh gutsy install, on an AMD64, installing the drivers by building a package using the patch that Michael posted, then whitelisting the drivers for compiz use. Compiz runs better than ever on all aspects. With XGL and the xorg drivers effects such as burn on open/close, paint fire, and also water were horribly slow. Now, they look great and function extremely well. The video is, of course, terrible at fullscreen, but i'm positive it will be better in the next release. This driver is a HUGE STEP FORWARD for ATI, and they are proving that they have legitimate concerns about making these cards work in Linux. A fully working release is gonna take time, and I know a lot of people here have been dealing with workarounds to get their stuff working even halfway decent, but, also, ATI works pretty damn well in windows. One thing that I hate is the fact that I have to wait for Toshiba to release the updated drivers for windows, even though I have an ATI/AMD pc, but with Linux anything released will run on my lappy. I love Linux, the versatility is immaculate, I even bought an Asus WL500gP to run oleg's openwrt on. I've installed DD-WRT on several linksys's, but this was my first asus, and they are awesome. Anyways, i'm just saying give these guys some credit for what they do, and if you want to complain that hard, develop some decent drivers yourself. ATI's even trying to make the move toward open-source, which is only logical, think about it, if they release the source to the community, the devolopement will happen AT LEAST 5 times faster. Maybe people that are having major problems and aren't seeing any improvement aren't properly installing the drivers, I don't know. I have a Toshiba Satellite A215-S4757 with an ATI Radeon Mobility X1200. I followed the tutorial from the ubuntuforums for installing the drivers from the package I built using the installer and the patch that Michael posted. Then I followed the ubuntuforum instructions for enabling compiz w/ fglrx. This was done on a fresh install of gutsy/64.
I, for one, have to say that I am VERY happy with this release. I only recently entered the ATI/Linux arena when I bought my laptop, but I have used ATI products with windows for several years. Obviously, the performance isn't what everyone hoped for, I, personally, am VERY happy looking at the performance in Ubuntu versus the performance of the last ATI proprietary drivers. I don't play any games, haven't really since the original Unreal Tournament, so maybe that has something to do with it. I have, however, used compiz under feisty/gutsy, with both the XGL method and the proprietary drivers. Performance without AIGLX was mediocre at best. After doing a fresh gutsy install, on an AMD64, installing the drivers by building a package using the patch that Michael posted, then whitelisting the drivers for compiz use. Compiz runs better than ever on all aspects. With XGL and the xorg drivers effects such as burn on open/close, paint fire, and also water were horribly slow. Now, they look great and function extremely well. The video is, of course, terrible at fullscreen, but i'm positive it will be better in the next release. This driver is a HUGE STEP FORWARD for ATI, and they are proving that they have legitimate concerns about making these cards work in Linux. A fully working release is gonna take time, and I know a lot of people here have been dealing with workarounds to get their stuff working even halfway decent, but, also, ATI works pretty damn well in windows. One thing that I hate is the fact that I have to wait for Toshiba to release the updated drivers for windows, even though I have an ATI/AMD pc, but with Linux anything released will run on my lappy. I love Linux, the versatility is immaculate, I even bought an Asus WL500gP to run oleg's openwrt on. I've installed DD-WRT on several linksys's, but this was my first asus, and they are awesome. Anyways, i'm just saying give these guys some credit for what they do, and if you want to complain that hard, develop some decent drivers yourself. ATI's even trying to make the move toward open-source, which is only logical, think about it, if they release the source to the community, the devolopement will happen AT LEAST 5 times faster. Maybe people that are having major problems and aren't seeing any improvement aren't properly installing the drivers, I don't know. I have a Toshiba Satellite A215-S4757 with an ATI Radeon Mobility X1200. I followed the tutorial from the ubuntuforums for installing the drivers from the package I built using the installer and the patch that Michael posted. Then I followed the ubuntuforum instructions for enabling compiz w/ fglrx. This was done on a fresh install of gutsy/64.
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