I decided to dump catalyst and dip into the opensource waters. I run archlinux. I took some PKGBUILDs from the AUR modified them to point to the latest MASTER code, and build DRM and RADEONHD from git. After couple of insmods, modifying xorg.conf, and restarting X, it is looking pretty good.
Video playback is on par with Catalyst, maybe even with less flickering. 2D feels much faster also.
On the downside, my card's fan is running louder than with catalyst for some reason... Maybe I warmed up the room with excitement? or maybe radeonhd code overwrites BIOS fan adjustment?
There is also no 3D accel and no Compiz yet. I still encourage anyone with Radeon 3000/4000 series card and unhappy with catalyst to try radeonhd and test it.
I have:
Intel C2D E6750
Intel Gigabyte P35 Motherboard
Powercolor Radeon HD4850
Archlinux (Xorg 1.5 + KDE 4.2.1)
Video playback is on par with Catalyst, maybe even with less flickering. 2D feels much faster also.
On the downside, my card's fan is running louder than with catalyst for some reason... Maybe I warmed up the room with excitement? or maybe radeonhd code overwrites BIOS fan adjustment?
There is also no 3D accel and no Compiz yet. I still encourage anyone with Radeon 3000/4000 series card and unhappy with catalyst to try radeonhd and test it.
I have:
Intel C2D E6750
Intel Gigabyte P35 Motherboard
Powercolor Radeon HD4850
Archlinux (Xorg 1.5 + KDE 4.2.1)
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