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I'm guessing that no new features will arrive until the new OpenGL code is in the linux driver?
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Please try running Doom 3 at 1280x1024 with a radeon x1900
that's really ugly.
I didn't find any fglrx problem under my 3600+/c690G box.
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Originally posted by damentz View PostYou don't understand swingler. FGLRX runs less than half as fast as its Windows counter part and it has absolutely no AIGLX support.
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You don't understand swingler. FGLRX runs less than half as fast as its Windows counter part and it has absolutely no AIGLX support.
Please try running Doom 3 at 1280x1024 with a radeon x1900, you will find you can't get 60fps all the time, which is unacceptable and ridiculously embarrassing for ATI.
You think fglrx is fine because you have not seen how much better it could be if any of the ATI devs would quit shitting around and actually use Linux.Last edited by damentz; 13 August 2007, 07:01 PM.
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Tell that to those who having problem here:
Search for old threads about "Driver Released", to read more... If you like...Last edited by lenrek; 13 August 2007, 02:30 AM.
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works in centos 5
I didn't find any fglrx problem under my 3600+/c690G box. It is officially supported on RHEL4 but CentOS5 with legacy support packages installed works just fine.
I also find that specifying resolution manually in xorg conf is not supported in fglrx, but it automatically set to a quite good resolution. Nothing else bad so far.
3rd party driver is not generally a good idea since HW vendors would try their best to provide drivers. Unless for alsa's case for snd drivers, compared to reporting problems to amd/ati, writing a new driver seems to be some overly confident work.
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I can't see why people need another ati linux driver while current one is good enough. I use amd 690G (ati 1250)
fglrx pretty much sucks - some people cannot even get it to work. and there is no bsd support.
the driver is slow, doesn't always work properly and sometimes is unstable. not mentioning the breakage that appears between releases. it also locks you to certain x.org/kernel setup which i've grown to hate recently - i had to wait for new x.org/kernel support for a couple of months a few times.
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What exactly are you referring to? The fglrx driver is closed source and currently has a host of other problems, which is why the community is working on the open-source Radeon and Avivo drivers. The rest of the AMD 690G system should work with the open-source drivers in nearly all of the latest desktop Linux distributions.
ATI currently doesn't offer a display driver for Solaris.
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