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I personally think we've been invaded by aliens or something....

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Oh, that again. Please stop repeating those completely fictitious performance figures.

GTX680 does [email protected] bit, 64 bit performance...

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Uncalled for. Apart from that he's pretty much spot on....

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

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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...

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I'm so happy for you. Please post that story in every thread in every ATI subforum here....

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HD Video with fglrx is easy. There is a xvba backend for vaapi.

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WIth a 7850, you'll have to use fglrx, which will probably suck badly with wine. In my experience it also kernel panics on shutdown.

So,...

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Sorry, that was a bit Offtopic....

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Evergreen = R600, it works out of the box on ubuntu 12.04 with FOSS drivers, the only exception being HDMI Audio, as far as I could see.
And it's...

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X does all sorts of 70s stuff like drawing lines and circles. Nobody uses that anymore.
We're better off with the 3D hardware.

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By benchmark I mean I watched a HD movie with xbmc and monitored the CPU load. Which is about 3 times that of the same setup using windows.
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Those things have certainly gotten much faster and very much harder to write a driver for.
That leads to the question if the present low manpower...

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Your dates are probably more accurate than my memory. Anyway the first OSS driver was best, followed by the present OSS driver, which is good, if very...