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It's no secrete that Nvidia and their developers have far better linux support than of ATI so no point arguing this people. Simply pointing this out helps no one and normally just turns into a flame war of company vs company.
With that out of the way more pressure needs to be applied to ATI and I think Valve is doping this well not just with ATI but a multitude of companies. Some won't even budge though look at the mess that Creative has created with their arrogant attitude out of the clear blue with complete refusal to even take a look at supported their new SoundCore3D chip (ca0132). However Linux Steam has been putting out some impressive accomplishments as well as their up coming Steambox. This could change the future of Linux gaming as well as support. *We can only hope)
Overall though anything new AMD/ATI cards have to offer having it in Linux right away is a rarity and even more so having it working in a stable way is even more rare.. However performance wise My 5970 card works pretty damn good in Linux in crossfire mode with most applications/games had very little problems with the exceptions of a few problems like GLSL shaders in games Like Aion which barely work in Linux under wine to begin with.
In the steam client I have great success with both companies so while ATI lacks in their driver support they make up for it in muscle which is a shame really that their developers just don't go at with a competitive approach even for simple things like crossfire support which needs an overhaul on how it's implemented, configured , and installed.
So rushing out to get the newest and best card and running it on linux don't expect to see huge margins of performance increased especially when they come from new features and or instructions because the applications themselves aren't written to take advantage of them which also holds true in windows. However it would help the Open Source community a great deal to have a reference to work with to help point out the glitches and bugs which will eventually in some near or distant future help the Open Source community.
This is true for Nvidia too however it seems that the linux developers at Nvidia seem to be more involved and perhaps just might be because of personal preferences there for roll out updates much more in tune to what the community is askign for
It's no secrete that Nvidia and their developers have far better linux support than of ATI so no point arguing this people. Simply pointing this out helps no one and normally just turns into a flame war of company vs company.
With that out of the way more pressure needs to be applied to ATI and I think Valve is doping this well not just with ATI but a multitude of companies. Some won't even budge though look at the mess that Creative has created with their arrogant attitude out of the clear blue with complete refusal to even take a look at supported their new SoundCore3D chip (ca0132). However Linux Steam has been putting out some impressive accomplishments as well as their up coming Steambox. This could change the future of Linux gaming as well as support. *We can only hope)
Overall though anything new AMD/ATI cards have to offer having it in Linux right away is a rarity and even more so having it working in a stable way is even more rare.. However performance wise My 5970 card works pretty damn good in Linux in crossfire mode with most applications/games had very little problems with the exceptions of a few problems like GLSL shaders in games Like Aion which barely work in Linux under wine to begin with.
In the steam client I have great success with both companies so while ATI lacks in their driver support they make up for it in muscle which is a shame really that their developers just don't go at with a competitive approach even for simple things like crossfire support which needs an overhaul on how it's implemented, configured , and installed.
So rushing out to get the newest and best card and running it on linux don't expect to see huge margins of performance increased especially when they come from new features and or instructions because the applications themselves aren't written to take advantage of them which also holds true in windows. However it would help the Open Source community a great deal to have a reference to work with to help point out the glitches and bugs which will eventually in some near or distant future help the Open Source community.
This is true for Nvidia too however it seems that the linux developers at Nvidia seem to be more involved and perhaps just might be because of personal preferences there for roll out updates much more in tune to what the community is askign for
Numerous threads about the drivers over the years. All initial Steamboxes will be powered by Nvidia, AMD later for obvious reasons. All new OpenCL gpu FAH cores can only be folded natively under Linux by Nvidia cards. Dev's developing Wine prefer using Nvidia ect. Pictures quite clear.
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