I wholly agree that AMD/ATI needs to get its act together. I complained every driver revision about artifacts in ivview, an open source OpenGL program used by many researchers on Linux/ Unix workstations. I'm 100% sure if the developers ran it, then looked at the code they could figure out what OpenGL feature is causing all the trouble rather easily.
Not to mention 8.42 and higher have WORSE artifacting in this program than previous drivers. Also, with the new codebase I get a torn watermark in the corner. While performance may be better, I'd rather have old bugs squashed. Hint: with a stable and reliable driver, I can always just buy a faster card if performance is not good enough for my needs.
I'm probably not the only one who wants this, but if anyone from AMD/ATI is reading, please, pretty please release the R300/R400 3D specs to the DRI team. The Open Source driver for R300 cards is okay and with specs I'm sure they could get it perfect. I actually got Compiz working with the DRI driver, fglrx I just got a big white screen. Yes performance in many areas is slower and its not quite feature complete yet, but a lot of the really nasty fglrx bugs aren't there, and 95% of 3D works.
Not to mention 8.42 and higher have WORSE artifacting in this program than previous drivers. Also, with the new codebase I get a torn watermark in the corner. While performance may be better, I'd rather have old bugs squashed. Hint: with a stable and reliable driver, I can always just buy a faster card if performance is not good enough for my needs.
I'm probably not the only one who wants this, but if anyone from AMD/ATI is reading, please, pretty please release the R300/R400 3D specs to the DRI team. The Open Source driver for R300 cards is okay and with specs I'm sure they could get it perfect. I actually got Compiz working with the DRI driver, fglrx I just got a big white screen. Yes performance in many areas is slower and its not quite feature complete yet, but a lot of the really nasty fglrx bugs aren't there, and 95% of 3D works.
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