Future of ATI Linux drivers

[Kano]

Cool pic

[EagleDM]

Hahahaha, you gotta love humor

[RealNC]

It's not my creation though. Found it on a German Ubuntu forum.

As you can guess, everyone's complaining about the constant tearing :P

[DeeZiD]

It's not my creation though. Found it on a German Ubuntu forum.

As you can guess, everyone's complaining about the constant tearing :P

Haha, nice, this was mine.
I was a bit bored at work.

will this problem ever be fixed?


Dennis

[Spicerun]

Hi Guys,

I admit being new on the forums, and I have just got to ask: Will Catalyst 8.9 support xorg-server-1.5.x, or did I read that ATI will not support server-1.5, but will wait until xorg-server-1.6.x? I would like to know...

I just updated my Gentoo installation which put xorg-server-1.5.1 on my system (and it was a hassle to manual hunt down and install all of the right versions of the new drivers with xorg too), and now Catalyst-8.8 won't install or even get loaded. For now I'm having to use the 'radeonhd' driver on my built-in HD2600 card.

Thanks,
--Spicerun

[MU_Engineer]

An interesting find

Apparently AMD is going to bring Blu-Ray playback to Linux here shortly:

http://http://resources.vr-zone.com/...t_roadmap1.png

I wonder if that will make UVD/UVD2 available as well, at least with the Catalyst drivers?

[jerome92300]

we just need good drivers ready to install, like under Windows

[rektide]

we just need good drivers ready to install, like under Windows

they have good drivers ready to install, they just dont seem to be available for the configurations some of us are looking for.

[RealNC]

they have good drivers ready to install, they just dont seem to be available for the configurations some of us are looking for.

Yes, very good drivers. Tearing in Xv till your eyes hurt, no video and no 3D in composite, slow as hell windows resizing...

Very good drivers indeed.

[BlackStar]

Yes, very good drivers. Tearing in Xv till your eyes hurt, no video and no 3D in composite, slow as hell windows resizing...

Very good drivers indeed.

Tearing in XV, video with composite: almost fixed in 9.1 and completely fixed in 9.2.

3d with composite affects the whole linux graphics stack. It will (finally) be fixed at some point in 2009.

You also forgot to complain about video decoding (they are working on it) and OpenCL (they already demonstrated an implementation - check youtube.)

Their drivers are getting pretty good. Don't believe me? Try installing 7.12 or 8.1 (just one year back) and see for yourself