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Originally posted by V!NCENT View PostEither way you end copying to the graphics card... Does this mean that a dedicated framebuffer is not nessecarily faster than a CPU, but is only good for offloading calculation power? And the CPU is only faster if you do nothing else but blit a bunch of pixmaps? This in the sense that if you do more than that it would be faster to let the graphocs card handle the blitting because then you don't have to move stuff back and forth between the CPU and the GPU to avoid massive latency?
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Originally posted by FunkyRider View PostSee, I know exactly what you mean. I have been a loyal ATI user since the Radeon 9700 days. I started converting myself to a full time Linux user in the Radeon X1900 era (3~4 years ago?) and the experience has always been like what you said Fglrx has always been a crap, endless crashing, slowing down, corrption, watermark?! And OSS driver by that time does not even support 2D acceleration in my X1900, so I waited and waited and waited still I sold my X1900 and it still doesn't work in Linux. My next purchase, the most regretful one was HD 2900 PRO. I could have gone to nVidia and be happy once and for all, but 2900 drag me into the same loop hole. Fglrx after two years was still just like before, slowing down in scroll, card fan fires up at full speed, lock ups and shit, and they got X1000 series working in OSS driver! but I upgraded to HD2000 family, by which time the OSS driver still did not support yet. So another year of wait. And this keeps on going for my HD 4850. You see, you can never get out of this waiting loop hole unless you jump ship to use something else. You can either use new NVidia cards, or you can use ATI cards which are 5 years old. But new ATI card on Linux? come on that's never gonna ever happen.
now on the other hand i've been using linux/solaris for like ten years now, and well the one thing i always said any unix like system suck was in the graphic stack. so in the past linux/solaris/bsd/whatever was a different story cuz the graphic stack was mostly a hack to include new hardware in a 30 years old slow infrastructure. so rigth now in 2010 we got a beggining to a solution to avoid in the future ppl like us suffer from problem anymore and that is due to the hard work putting in the graphic stack wich is being thinked to actually work with modern gpu in a nice way.
so the future is not so black once g3d and the new plataform gets here production ready and well who knows what kind of magic can bring the future
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostNo, we just like trees... and islands...
If Wikipedia is correct, Fusion will be codenamed after birds, presumably to preemptively stop fist fights between engineers from the graphics and processor divisions.
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