The State of ATI Linux 2007

[Michael]

Coming Out Next Week (4th of July).

http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=255

Last Year's: http://www.phoronix.com/?page=redblog_entry&item=4850

Discussion can take place in this thread.

[d2kx]

This will be a short article. Still no AIGLX, still no performance improvements, fixed some bugs, introduced some new bugs. That's it. Oh, I forget the amdcccle, the only real improvement I can think of now.

[yoshi314]

"the developers were very busy preparing the slides for development cycle article. but they managed to write a new shiny control panel in their free time" - the most likely excuse i expect to hear from ati this year :]

[d2kx]

Interesting read. If I understood it correctly, the new OpenGL driver will most likely bring AIGLX and R600 Support? I didn't know that AIGLX is part of the OpenGL driver. Or did I missread something?

[Michael]

Interesting read. If I understood it correctly, the new OpenGL driver will most likely bring AIGLX and R600 Support? I didn't know that AIGLX is part of the OpenGL driver. Or did I missread something?

AIGLX and R600 support should be out in the near future, as stated in the article.

[d2kx]

Yeah I know, I am just not to sure whether AIGLX and R600 Support will come together with the new OpenGL driver or at anytime, not depending on the OpenGL driver.

I learned to wait, so I will wait.

Start thinking of new fglrx driver names then, the ones from the thread you've opened are funny but no real candidates. Damn, I hope we'll find new reasons to hate fglrx when it adds R600, Performance and AIGLX

[Svartalf]

Yeah I know, I am just not to sure whether AIGLX and R600 Support will come together with the new OpenGL driver or at anytime, not depending on the OpenGL driver.

I learned to wait, so I will wait.

Start thinking of new fglrx driver names then, the ones from the thread you've opened are funny but no real candidates. Damn, I hope we'll find new reasons to hate fglrx when it adds R600, Performance and AIGLX

R600 support, I'll believe- maybe even by the end of this year
AIGLX, I might believe- maybe even by the end of this year.
Performance... That remains to be seen.

[sundown]

I find it optimistic.
Michael certainly does.
Which adds to my point that I refuse to believe that ATi are that stupid.

[Extreme Coder]

I certainly hope the improvements will happen soon enough.
Right now, my powerful-enough-for-me system with an AGP slot needs a video card, and in terms of power, I found the ATI X1650 Pro to be the strongest within my $100 budget.
But I'm too scared to buy it, as I won't get to buy another card for some time, if ATI doesn't release the new set of drivers. So I'll be stuck with it :/ I just hope the new drivers have improved performance.

Do you think I should buy it, and play a waiting game for better drivers?
Or is there a better card that is within my budget? (or a tad higher)

Thanks.

[yoshi314]

Damn, I hope we'll find new reasons to hate fglrx when it adds R600, Performance and AIGLX

you'll probably have one - "buggy as hell"

well, it's nice to see people starting to hope for better drivers again, for a change. but did ati give us a good reason to start hoping again? i guess i missed something