Originally posted by mityukov
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2). Wine --> 2nd.
Another bug: For me, Xine reproducably crashes the whole machine with some videos (HD 3xxx, fglrx 8.11). With nvidia I last saw this happen in 2003 or something.
...and to top things, as you said already, instead of fixing these long-standing bugs, ATI seems to work on new features. Really, who needs some let-programs-run-on-GPU feat if text consoles feel sluggish and video playback occasionally makes the system crash? Not that I would ever expect these new features to work properly if even the basics don't work...
Michael, PLEASE, in next articles about fglrx, mention the horrible basic state the driver is in. I definitely dislike NVIDIA, and I like the fact that ATI released specifications a lot. Based on articles like the one you wrote I purchased a recent ATI card and was quite horrified by the state of things when trying it first-hand. The card has been returned, and I will probably stay away from ATI graphics for quite some time now even though I'm an open source advocate.
Old ATI cards (X1xxx etc.) with OSS drivers may be cool (if you don't want to play recent games in Wine, that is).
Recent ATI cards (HD3xxx/4xxx) with the fglrx driver definitely don't cut it. They suck both in 2D (with no OSS alternatives ready yet) and 3D/Wine. And you don't want fglrx if you want your system to run stable.
Don't pretend fglrx is mature enough for daily use.
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