[arch-general] Radeon (xf86-video-ati) verdict

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Thu Nov 5 03:22:58 EST 2009


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 ;)



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