I just want support for my $200 video card
I'm so tired of hearing this. Does that change the fact that I paid $200 for a video card that is not fully supported by the company that made it? You don't hear this kind of lame statement from your competition. I have products from AMD and Nvidia in my home and I can testify to the support of both companies. AMD and Nvidia are on even ground when it comes to Windows in my opinion even though there are still tons of people who claim otherwise. But when it comes to Linux Nvidia mops the floor with AMD. I don't hear Nvidia claiming that they only support their workstation clients. There Linux driver isn't called quadro. So what you are telling me is that I should just use Windows. Oh, there's the open source drivers you say. Have you tried them lately? Apparently not because if you had you would know that they are still not that usable for my hardware. Unless the latest version is being used with the 2.6.30 kernel the Radeon 3850 doesn't have any 3D acceleration. That's not happening until Ubuntu 9.10 is released.
Obviously they don't do what I want, otherwise I wouldn't be trying to use fglrx. The version of the radeon driver that ships with Jaunty only provides 2D acceleration for my card. Why shouldn't I have be able to access my $200 video cards 3D capabilities? I constantly can't do compositing or play simple games because fglrx is too damn flaky. I've seen you mention using XRender before for doing compositing because compositing doesn't require full OpenGL acceleration. Have you ever tried using XRender? It's slow as molasses and doesn't always work right.
Yes, it does seem to be a memory leak. As far as what applications I use, it doesn't matter. It happens with different programs all the time. Firefox, Konsole, VirtualBox, Amarok, whatever. I'll give you information like my motherboard model, CPU, Ram, whatever all day long if I know someone is actually going to do something with it. But like you said fglrx is for CAD workstations, average consumers don't matter to AMD. Unless you can tell me someone is actually going to investigate something I'm not going to waste my time putting together my specs for a company who doesn't care unless I'm using CAD.
I hate that you have to take the brunt of everyone's anger here in this forum and I commend you for keeping your cool as well as you do with some of the posts I've seen directed towards you. I wish you would drop the "we only support CAD users" defense though. I hope AMD pays you well for monitoring this forum.
Posted by bridgman
The fglrx driver is primarily written for the professional workstation market (CAD etc..), which is the main market for Linux graphics right now. It is unlikely that the open source drivers will ever be able to replace fglrx in that segment.
The fglrx driver is primarily written for the professional workstation market (CAD etc..), which is the main market for Linux graphics right now. It is unlikely that the open source drivers will ever be able to replace fglrx in that segment.
Posted by bridgman
Jaunty also shipped with the open source drivers by default. If they do everything you want then I think everyone would agree that staying with the default drivers is your best bet.
Jaunty also shipped with the open source drivers by default. If they do everything you want then I think everyone would agree that staying with the default drivers is your best bet.
Posted by bridgman
The purpose of the ati.cchtml.com tracker is to collect and organize enough information that a developer will be able to reproduce the problem in house. For the problem you are describing we would need more information than just "3850" and "Kubuntu", of course, eg which applications we should be running to make the problem appear.
The purpose of the ati.cchtml.com tracker is to collect and organize enough information that a developer will be able to reproduce the problem in house. For the problem you are describing we would need more information than just "3850" and "Kubuntu", of course, eg which applications we should be running to make the problem appear.
I hate that you have to take the brunt of everyone's anger here in this forum and I commend you for keeping your cool as well as you do with some of the posts I've seen directed towards you. I wish you would drop the "we only support CAD users" defense though. I hope AMD pays you well for monitoring this forum.
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