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I know its Off Topic but why are the OpenSource AMD Drivers blacklisted? I have searched at bugs.freedesktop.org but i didn't find and bug report that explain it. -
I highly doubt that amd does much to improve the opengl part of their drivers if they are not forced by bad press. I benchmarked heaven long ago and mentioned a huge diff between d3d and opengl rendering, but nothing happened till heise published benchmarks of a new released product and compared it to nvidia. Last time it was clear that they needed to improve performance on dual core systems which had much problems with Rage. amd had luck that kernel 3.1 is not so different from 3.0 that their driver still works with it, but the xserver 1.11 support is still lacking. Most likely when they begin to support xserver 1.11 there will be still problems because they begin testing new upstream things too late if no ubuntu release is scheduled next to it. This attitude is very bad, linux improvements only when absolutely forced, thats not correct to call this a "better" driver, when it was 99% just a side effect from other work for the win users. If you want an opengl bug fixed then you have to prove that the error exists on win first it seems, so begin porting gnome 3 to win
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It's sad to say it, but now and in short term ATI is/will be 10 years behind NVIDIA with graphic-drivers. Is not fair for the users not to support gnome-shell until more than a year after launching. Yes, I know, the open drivers are nice, but if you have a graphic card like mine (ati 5850) with fans, you have to select the "low_profile", and then all the unity and gnome-shell effects become "slideshows"....Leave a comment:
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AMD Catalyst 11.12 Will Be Even Better
Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 11.12 Will Be Even Better
Catalyst 11.10 was released yesterday for Linux and Windows platforms. Many Linux users are pleased by this driver update as can be seen from the forums, but Catalyst 11.12 is set to improve the Radeon binary blob situation even more...
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