X.org's DRI vs. ATi's Proprietary driver (Was: "Re: ATI Livna driver package (Something has changed)")
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Tue Aug 30 06:51:21 UTC 2005
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
>> server implementation. Just for the sake of my curiosity, is there
>> something special that ATi's proprietary driver gives you that you
>> cannot get with the Free drivers? I think, considering that GNU/Linux
>> is based on the principles of Free/open-source software, it would make
>> sense to use Free drivers where supported, right? :-O
>
>
> 2 words: Doom 3 ;)
>
> (last time I looked the Free drivers did cause lots of graphic distortions
> in that game).
9200se is way underpowered for doom3, having half the memory bandwidth of
the regular 9200 doesn't help it either.
> Klaasjan
>
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