Radeon (xf86-video-ati) verdict

[David C. Rankin]

After working with the ati driver instead of the radeonhd driver, I must say I am very impressed with the KMS implementation. It works much, much better than in the past (performance is still way short of fglrx, and it is still much HOTTER than fglrx , but screen artifacts are virtually eliminated, desktop effects are good, and compiz works very well with the driver.

Helluva job Arch team!


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[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 01:55 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> After working with the ati driver instead of the radeonhd driver, I must say I am very impressed with the KMS implementation. It works much, much better than in the past (performance is still way short of fglrx, and it is still much HOTTER than fglrx , but screen artifacts are virtually eliminated, desktop effects are good, and compiz works very well with the driver.
>
> Helluva job Arch team!
>
>

Uhh... credit where credit is due, and the ati driver isn't
written/maintained by the Arch dev team =)

[Jan de Groot]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 16:19 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 01:55 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> > After working with the ati driver instead of the radeonhd driver, I must say I am very impressed with the KMS implementation. It works much, much better than in the past (performance is still way short of fglrx, and it is still much HOTTER than fglrx , but screen artifacts are virtually eliminated, desktop effects are good, and compiz works very well with the driver.
> >
> > Helluva job Arch team!
> >
> >
>
> Uhh... credit where credit is due, and the ati driver isn't
> written/maintained by the Arch dev team =)

We just took the right git snapshot that works on his system ;)

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:22 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 16:19 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 01:55 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> > > After working with the ati driver instead of the radeonhd driver, I must say I am very impressed with the KMS implementation. It works much, much better than in the past (performance is still way short of fglrx, and it is still much HOTTER than fglrx , but screen artifacts are virtually eliminated, desktop effects are good, and compiz works very well with the driver.
> > >
> > > Helluva job Arch team!
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Uhh... credit where credit is due, and the ati driver isn't
> > written/maintained by the Arch dev team =)
>
> We just took the right git snapshot that works on his system ;)
>

Ah, how could I have overlooked that.

Helluva job JGC and co! =)