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  1. Re:What the hell is a DCE6 display watermark? by Daniel+Phillips · · Score: 1 · on AMD Releases Open-Source Radeon HD 7000 Driver

    What the hell does "DCE6 display watermark support" mean?
    I googled for it and didn't find anything useful.

    Whoa, this one really flies below the Google radar. DCE part of recent Radeon architecture, a programmable display controller that produces low level digitial signals to drive a wide variety of display types. As for "watermark", I did not turn up much on it beyond the patch. You tell me and we'll both know.

  2. Re:There's only two questions that matter by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 1 · on NVIDIA Driver Developer Discusses Linux Graphics

    A few links to follow:
    Main page
    Features
    Programs (not performance just wine style if it works)
    A developers blog
    I think the performance will always lag behind nvidia, however I'd guess that in about 9 months time the radeon drivers do most 3d rendering at a decent speed (It could be sooner, but i doubt it will be longer unless there is a major change)

  3. Re:There's only two questions that matter by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 3, Interesting · on NVIDIA Driver Developer Discusses Linux Graphics

    Sure the radeon/radeonhd drivers are in need of help, but most radeon developement is being done by two non-ATI guys.
    Sure the 3D rendering is behind the blobs, but not that far behind [1]
    And the 2D drivers are faster
    And in my experience way more stable (outside of KMS issues i have had 0 crashes under radeon, the same could not be said for catalyst or nvidia drivers)

    The reality is that for everyday use*, ATI cards now work out of the box on linux with rock solid stability this is not the case for nvidia, and it's just a matter of time till the 3D support catches up with nvidia's and firmly place ATI cards as #1 choice for Linux users (if its not already)

    *call me old fashioned, but i don't consider compositing part of that.

  4. Re:Not about souce, but about *Technical Specs*. by jelle · · Score: 1 · on MIT Artificial Vision Researchers Assemble 16-GPU Machine
    Last December, AMD hired Alex Deucher to work on xorg for them:

    His blog here

    If you don't know who Alex Deucher is, just Google his name.

  5. There are paid X developers by Sits · · Score: 1 · on The State of X.Org

    But it sounds like some of them are seemingly so well known. You've mentioned Dave Airlied and Keith Packard but what about Eric Anholt (Intel), Carl Worth (Red Hat), Daniel Stone (Nokia), Adam Jackson (Red Hat), David Reveman (Novell), Matthias Hopf (Novell), Alex Deucher (AMD), Ian Romanick (IBM), Alan Coopersmith (Sun). I believe that Tungsten Graphics also employ people who work on X (or X related infrastructure).

    However do projects have to have paid devs to succeed? If there is the manpower perhaps paid people are not so key?