Catalyst 9.1 with "Composite & Video Support" leaked!

[FunkyRider]

Long way to go AMD

I will halt all ATI video card purchasing decisions until I see a truly working Linux driver. Be it open source or not. period.

[Kano]

Hahahaha

[RealNC]

I expect something bad to happen with 9.11.

[bridgman]

The Catalyst release numbers are year.month. Yes, that does mean the first release of the year should be 9.01, not 9.1

[RealNC]

Btw, what happened to 9.0?

[plastikman]

I didnt have to do anything other than what i posted here http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showp...4&postcount=17

[Christian_L]

The 9.1 beta seems good to me...

Compiz-fusion works great on my x700 Mobility resizing windows and watching videos seems to work like a charm. Firefox scrolling is still slow but that is to be expected.

Running FC10 here

Did you still have to downgrade libdrm and modify the initrd, or has that been fixed?

[russell_h]

Agreed, Firefox on my nvidia card is almost unusable. I'm not sure if its hardware or a Fedora thing (I use Ubuntu and Gentoo on my other boxes), but running 3.1 nightly builds with tracemonkey enabled and "smooth scrolling" disabled made it usable, but scrolling on Twitter, etc is still painful.

I have an older nvidia card (forget the model) in my workstation, and Firefox has been alright, but not great, with binary drivers in both Ubuntu and Gentoo. Never had a problem on my main desktop with a Radeon HD 4850 (with any driver).

Edit: All of the above applies with and without compositing, except with the open source drivers on the ATI card where compositing obviously isn't an option.

[energyman]

yes, and firefox slowed down to a crawl. Like a snail in a salt mine

[DeeZiD]

then complain to firefox and gtk. Firefox (and gtk) is simply slow. Everywhere.

Are you joking?
Have you ever enabled compositing on a nvidia card?