AMD Catalyst For Linux On The "Blacklist Of Junk"

[mibo]

Will this Catalyst hate of Michael Larabel never end? Will there be a time when he is bored of that ATI/AMD bashing?

I mean, you can find a person that hates a specific software - for every software. But, only Catalyst haters will make it on the Phoronix front page.
I, for example could hate the nvidia driver as it triggered Kwin slow downs in my notebook for years. There were many complaints in the nvnews forum and Kwin coder Martin was really annoyed of the nvidia-black-box...

[barkas]

fglrx only shows "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc." when it detects glxinfo, take a look at /etc/ati/atiogl.xml

        <!-- glxinfo -->
        <profile exename="glxinfo">
                <OpenGLCapsEx>0x02000000</OpenGLCapsEx>
        </profile>

That sort of negates any usefulness glxinfo may have. That hack is, indeed, unbelievably stupid.

[.CME.]

fglrx only shows "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc." when it detects glxinfo, take a look at /etc/ati/atiogl.xml

        <!-- glxinfo -->
        <profile exename="glxinfo">
                <OpenGLCapsEx>0x02000000</OpenGLCapsEx>
        </profile>

[GreatEmerald]

Not terribly surprising. Wine doesn't have to test for the NVidia vendor string before enabling NVidia-specific fixes because they develop for NVidia hardware by default and then fix up anything that doesn't work on AMD later.

No. This has nothing to do with Wine and everything to do with crappy Windows programs.

[PsynoKhi0]

One anecdote from one guy who ran into one stupid problem years ago does not make for an interesting story. It is also not evidence that the Catalyst drivers are, today on modern hardware, junk.

Though it makes for quite a few ad hits from the sensationalism and the ensuing "yeah fglrx is teh sux" rally in the forum... Mission accomplished.

[molecule-eye]

One anecdote from one guy who ran into one stupid problem years ago does not make for an interesting story. It is also not evidence that the Catalyst drivers are, today on modern hardware, junk.

[makomk]

diff -uN glxinfo wine_glxinfo:

-OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
+OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.

Not terribly surprising. Wine doesn't have to test for the NVidia vendor string before enabling NVidia-specific fixes because they develop for NVidia hardware by default and then fix up anything that doesn't work on AMD later.

[dcc24]

dcc24: do you write a Composite Manager ? My guess is no as if you were, you would just agree.

So what? That developer might be right in saying that, but it still doesn't make this *thing* an actual article with any level of journalistic integrity.

[GreatEmerald]

they cant do it on windows or they will break a lot of stuff. they are relying on the process name since a long time even on windows, take a look at the file atiogl.xml . if you know a better way to detect a specific apps tell them.

How about a compatibility checkbox in CCC?

[disgrace]

Nope. It's just wrong. A driver should never ever do something depending on process name. Possibly they should report ATI in any case - they obviously did not dare to change it on windows, why should they do it for linux?

they cant do it on windows or they will break a lot of stuff. they are relying on the process name since a long time even on windows, take a look at the file atiogl.xml . if you know a better way to detect a specific apps tell them.