Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:21:28 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: BUG in free_block (tainted) |
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 01:51:31PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > Oh, right. I guess I didn't even consider anyone would still be using > the binary-only ATI crap now that we have proper open source drivers > available.... ;-)
I never tried fglrx, but judging from my experiences with the onboard 690G on the board I bought at the beginning of this year (with the two open source X11 drivers for it) the word "proper" is not appropriate when you want a working system.
And I'm not talking about stuff like Xv or even 3D - all I'm asking for is that DVI works flawlessly (and without sporadic GPU lookups).
Note that this is not meant against the developers of the open source drivers - that's simply one of the many areas where recent hardware does not work flawlessly under Linux and developing drivers that work flawlessly takes some time.
> Pekka
cu Adrian
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