fglrx slower on FC5 than radeon?

[A.J. Bonnema]

Jack Howarth wrote:
>     Has anyone installed the new xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.23.7-4.lvn5
> and kmod-fglrx-smp-8.23.7-4.2.6.16_1.2080_FC5 yet? I find that these
> drivers seem to slow the desktop performance of the machine. The
> glxgears rate of the fglrx driver (set with the ati-fglrx-config-display
> tool) is only 1500 fps compared to 1833 fps with the stock xorg radeon
> driver. Beyond that the fglrx driver seems to make the machine much
> less responsive (windows open slower, etc). Reverting back to the
> radeon drivers was much more usable. Also ... <snipping more problems with the fglrx driver>
>                 Jack
>   
Jack, I thank you very much for this warning. Hopefully they get fixed soon.
On the other hand, not installing, means no 3D games, modellers etc. 
Well maybe enabling and disabling manually will work properly.

Anyway, thank you for the warning.

Guus.

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