xorg-x11-drv-ati problem?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:11:44 -0400,
  Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 23:03 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 17:02:37 -0400,
> >   Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I think you're gonna be confused no matter what, since fglrx DOES happen
> > > to be the authoritative ati drivers; by the manufacturer.  The
> > > manufacturer (by definition the CREATOR of the hardware), is also by
> > > definition then the creator of the AUTHORITATIVE drivers.  So you've got
> > 
> > That doesn't make them the authoritative Fedora ATI drivers.
> 
> And since Fedora is not authoritative for ATI, this means exactly jack.
> 
> The hierarchy is hardware before software, which should be pretty
> evident except of course to GNU flagellants.  The official drivers are
> the hardware manufacturer's drivers.  And 1 + 1 = 2, 2 + 2 = 4, etc.
> See you kindergarten class for more details.

The meaningful test of this is where you are getting your support from
ATI is going to support their drivers on some specified platforms and
Fedora is going to support theirs on Fedora. That means you can get support
for the Fedora drivers on all current versions of Fedora where as with
ATI's at the current time you can't. That seems to contradict them being
the authoritative drivers for Fedora.

> > > the real drivers by the manufacturer and then you've got the freetard
> > > drivers which have the subpar performance.  At least with the latest
> > > hardware and not including legacy hardware.
> > 
> > My r530 based card does get 3d acceleration in F9. I haven't compared it to
> > fglrx so I can't say if fglrx gets a bit more out of the card, but from what
> > you say it sounds like it wouldn't work at all.
> 
> You need to boost your reading comprehension then.  The paragraph is
> what it is; keep reading it over and over till you get it, I guess.
> 
> Or not.

Did you actually do some objective performance comparisons between the ATI
drivers and the latest radeon driver included with Fedora? If so what were the
results?