[arch-general] Segmentation fault in X after last upgrade

[Xavier]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:01 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just be thankful you are not using ATI hardware where everything prior to the
> 2400 Series cards were deprecated to "Legacy" cards and all Linux support
> dropped in March ;-)
>
> (performance difference between fglrx and ati 1066 FPS version 160 FPS, and
> the downclocking isn't present in the opensource driver (not the gpu
> powerdown) and temps are up 25 degrees (you feel it in the laptop palm rest).
>

Heh.

ati 3d support is much more advanced and mature than nouveau one.

And I thought ati had some sort of downclocking support. But I am not
100% sure. From your comment, maybe it can just downclock the mem
speed and not the gpu speed ?
In any cases, for nouveau it is inexistent.