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AMD Catalyst 9.7 For Linux Released
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Originally posted by acreda View PostI have to agree, the driver does seem to get better and better, yes its a slow effort but as fglrx is closed sourced AMD can only justify so many resources to the project, while leaps and bounds are being made by the Mesa drivers because the can call on bigger resources around the world even if its ad-hoc.
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Originally posted by samile View PostAre you not experiencing the resizing delays any more?
There is a funny bug with this driver. When you move the player window on the left of the screen, if the video is not entirely displayed, the image become blurry. I don't have this problem on the other edges (top, bottom and right are ok).
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For me this seems a good release. I see improvements in OpenGL (a beta, probably incomplete, OpenGL 3.1 context is available). So far I haven't noticed any regressions.
But I do hope we will see better kernel support in the future. If AMD doesn't want to give full support on newer kernels, please provide beta support for them or something like that.
I'm also hoping we will see OpenCL support soon... And OpenGL 3.2 will probably be announced soon, so I hope AMD will provide support for these new techniques soon.
All in all, I still have the feeling the driver is on average improving, so I have hope we will have a very good driver some day. And perhaps the massive trolling in these forums will decrease at some point...
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Support for 2.6.30 & F11 is not the kitchen sink
Originally posted by nanonyme View PostYeah, I suspect if every new version had enough new features to keep Michael happy, they'd soon start including everything including the kitchen sink and neighbour's gold fish. I don't personally see what's wrong with just pushing bug fixes and performance fixes in new versions.
Sigh, another month of waiting and absolutely no certainty that the next release contains support for 2.6.30 and Fedora 11. ATI: how about a roadmap or confirmation that the next release will 100% sure contain support for 2.6.30 and Fedora 11?
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Originally posted by kensai View PostStill concentrating in a very bad OSS driver with no 3D support, so we only have two half-backed alternatives. Can't we have one fully backed driver?
Thanks to the drops support for those improved and r500 support was added.
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For me, this driver is the best one in ages (after some very rudimentary testing). Firstly, setting DisplaySize didn't work in 9.6 for me (could have been just my system - I guess something had changed in xorg-server and some other part was lacking behind, be that fglrx or some bug in Gentoo). But also, OepnGL performance is better. I can play DosBOX games without hiccups now in opengl mode - I doesn't crash when I toggle between windowed and fullscreen
Thanks ATI, this is the right direction. Though, I would of course like to see the OSS driver improving also
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Well, for me I've given up temporarily. I bought a very cheap Nvidia 9500GT-card(<40$) w. HDMI + audio passthrough for my Linux-box. I'm bound to using 2.6.31+ kernels for certain features I use, and no fglrx there yet.
Besides, I'm in for Beta-testing Voddler and wan't quality videodrivers with good videoacceleration as my Linux-box will be used as a HTPC for Voddler with my FullHD LCD in the livingroom.
I do not need high performance 3D, I have another Windows gamingbox for that, I just want basic working 3D and good video but low power consumption and noice, so I believe 9500GT will suffice(almost worthless for gaming).
Eventually I will switch back to ATI when drivers are more mature, but for now I'm looking forward to investigating the very fullfeatured 190.18 Nvidia-drivers
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