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Re: Is it time to give ATI another look?
said by alamarco  :They do work with Compiz. When I tried Ubuntu they worked perfectly fine with no lag what so ever. The latest drivers even support AIGX (spelling) so there is no need for XGL (unless I'm mistaken). On some cards, with some moon phases. Read the Phoronix or Ubuntu forum problem reports and you'll find still plenty of people who seem to not be able to get it to work reliably no matter what.
For me, everything works EXCEPT windowed accelerated content (xvideo, opengl), flickers like hell... I'll excuse them and let them blame it on DRI1's inferior overlay-compositing abilities, but I am willing to bet it'll take them 5 years to transisition to DRI2 also, given their slow-as-molasses reaction to the 2.6 kernel, Xorg 7, and AIGLX.
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The black screen bug had a solution, so even though ATi didn't fix it promptly I don't call this an important bug. Right now the drivers work near 100% for the Radeon Xpress 200M. The only problem, that which you have mentioned, is with going back to the console. It doesn't crash, as you can still type to startx again, but you can't see anything. If you use a login manager such as KDM or GDM it isn't even an issue as they will restart X themselves.
Untrue. There are several deadlocks that cause the kernel to oops or kernel to hang from console switching. A script on my system that performs 1000 chvt's in a row is guaranteed to lock up my system currently.
Also, switching away from X and doing a /etc/init.d/gdm stop also hangs my display (needs to SSH in to do a proper shutdown, VBE posting or restarting X has no effect)
They've improved, YES, but it's far from an ideal experience.
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