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KWin May Drop Support For Catalyst, Vintage GPUs
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Originally posted by DanL View Post3D performance parity is unrealistic. I usually hear devs saying 60-75% of Catalyst performance is the target..
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The main point to take away is that if you have an AMD/ATI GPU and you are running ordinary desktop software, such as Firefox and KDE and its aplications, the Radeon open source drivers are ALREADY the best choice. Easily.
It will only get better and better from here on.Last edited by hal2k1; 21 February 2012, 06:52 AM.
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Originally posted by aceman View PostThanks, and the X server process?
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Originally posted by hal2k1 View PostThere are no articles yet on Phoronix, as far as I am aware, which report the performance of Mesa 8 and the OpenGL 3 milestone (for Intel and AMD/ATI GPUs) which was released in January this year...Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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I support KWin developers to drop FGLRX support
I absolutely support KWin developers. I've been running my laptop and desktops with the open-source Radeon driver for years now and it works great (big thanks to all the developers). Recently I had to assemble and set up a new computer for an acquaintance of mine and I thought I would check if in these years FGLRX is any better. And it is still very bad. So I just switched to open-source Radeon driver and all started to work fine. I really wish AMD moved all the FGLRX developers of this trash and instead focus all the work on the opensource driver, which is a much better starting point.
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Originally posted by Tsiolkovsky View PostI absolutely support KWin developers. I've been running my laptop and desktops with the open-source Radeon driver for years now and it works great (big thanks to all the developers). Recently I had to assemble and set up a new computer for an acquaintance of mine and I thought I would check if in these years FGLRX is any better. And it is still very bad. So I just switched to open-source Radeon driver and all started to work fine. I really wish AMD moved all the FGLRX developers of this trash and instead focus all the work on the opensource driver, which is a much better starting point.
In an ideal world, the developers will support anything and everything. But in the real world, when the KDE devs say the road to take is to focus, I'll trust their decision is more informed than mine.
As for ATI, if they haven't figured OpenGL2 out by now, I wouldn't expect it anytime soon either.
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I'd definitely say just go for it and drop the legacy Catalyst drivers...
the people who run legacy Catalyst drivers are stuck on old kernel and Xorg versions anyway..... Or they switch to Gallium...
So there's no point in continuing to support legacy Catalyst in KWIN, unless I'm missing something..
I'm assuming by legacy, he means the hardware which is no longer supported in the latest versions of Catalyst.
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Originally posted by Sidicas View PostSo there's no point in continuing to support legacy Catalyst in KWIN, unless I'm missing something..
I'm assuming by legacy, he means the hardware which is no longer supported in the latest versions of Catalyst.
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