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Originally posted by e8hffff View PostHow about a better idea. Inform AMD of the plans then rip out OGL1 when they have the driver ready.
I can imagine these proposals may also distrupt Wine and hardware gfx?
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Originally posted by e8hffff View PostHow about a better idea. Inform AMD of the plans then rip out OGL1 when they have the driver ready.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostIHow in the world would this affect Wine? It wouldn't. Just like you could run Wine and other 3D apps with older KDE/Gnome releases before 3D desktops came about, this affects nothing except the window manager.
KDE still needs to interact with gfx like mode changes.
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Originally posted by Qaridariumnot really i do the same! KDE works well with the radeon driver.
Code:$ lspci -nn 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series] [1002:68e0] $ lshw -short /0/1 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 460 @ 2.53GHz /0/100/1/0 display Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series] $ glxinfo | grep OpenGL OpenGL vendor string: X.Org OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0-rc2 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 $ uname -a Linux enceladus 3.2.0-17-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 17 21:35:49 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ modinfo radeon filename: /lib/modules/3.2.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko license: GPL and additional rights description: ATI Radeon author: Gareth Hughes, Keith Whitwell, others. depends: drm,drm_kms_helper,ttm,i2c-algo-bit intree: Y vermagic: 3.2.0-17-generic SMP mod_unload modversions
Last edited by hal2k1; 21 February 2012, 02:29 AM.
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Originally posted by salsadoom View PostWell, that's an obnoxious pain in the ass. My Laptop has the videocard thats in it and thats it, I'd hate to lose my nice desktop effects and the functionality they bring while they think that AMD cares enough to upgrade anything. Like AMD cares about the KDE desktop users... I'm pretty sure that they don't give a spit.
KDE users (such as me) with a laptop with AMD/ATI graphics hardware can run the open source Radeon driver.
After all, it works like an absolute charm with KDE and kwin.
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Originally posted by hal2k1 View PostWorks like an absolute charm with KDE. Every possible bling effect in kwin one could possibly want. Extremely snappy and responsive.
Why buy an expensive GFX card if the driver will only going to do 3d mode for KWin at acceptable levels.
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Originally posted by e8hffff View PostThe Radeon driver is also extremely slow when compared to fglrx in Wine games.
Why buy an expensive GFX card if the driver will only going to do 3d mode for KWin at acceptable levels.
60+ fps
(one only gets a few fps with Intel graphics)
I personally don't run Wine or games, since I use my coputer for computing. This laptop with Radeon Mobility graphics was the same price as one with Intel graphics, but the AMD/ATI graphics hardware is of course far superior.
The Radeon driver is not slow at all.
If Wine has a problem with the open source Radeon driver, then it is high time Wine fixed this. If they can't figure out how, perhaps the Wine project should simply adopt the Gallium3D state tracker for Direct3D.
Last edited by hal2k1; 21 February 2012, 02:48 AM.
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