Comments on: fglrx_drv < radeon_drv

By: techzilla

techzilla — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:45:29 +0000

im begining to dislike FGLRX all together, there are so many damn issues and even more problems with amd64. none of these these problems would be such a big deal if ati would just open source this shiat

By: Jens Nistler

Jens Nistler — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:20:34 +0000

the suspend problem is known by ati but they don’t seem to care about linux users.

By: bushwakko

bushwakko — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:16:58 +0000

The main problem with the radeon driver for me is the lack of tv-out support. Also the OpenGL is better on the proprietary driver. However since they tend to break and change stuff like Xvideo and TV-Out each other driver it would be great if someoen could implement tv-out on the radeon one though…

By: Jason A. Donenfeld

Jason A. Donenfeld — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:15:54 +0000

What about 3d acceleration? I was under the impression that the open source raedon plugin did not support that or any other hardware accelerated functions such as AGP or PCIe. I just got a Inspiron 9300 laptop and opted to use the raedon plugin, however, after the fglrx libraries did not compile well with GCC 3.4 (they link agaisnt libc++.5 I believe, which I don’t think GCC 3.4 has).

By: KirbyMeister

KirbyMeister — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:01:02 +0000

Hrm… exact opposite on the nvidia side, the proprietary works better than the open-source driver (dual-monitors actually work)… which is pretty strange. And unwanted because now I have to taint my kernel for dual-monitor support.