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ATI Releases AIGLX Linux Driver

Posted by kdawson on from the making-compiz-sing-and-dance dept.

Michael writes "A month after AMD released a Radeon HD 2000 'R600' Linux driver based on their new Linux driver codebase, they have now released another driver that provides AIGLX support used for Compiz and Compiz Fusion. In addition to this long-awaited AIGLX support, this driver also addresses issues with previous Radeon product families, performance improvements, AGP fixes, and added features to their graphical control panel. Phoronix has a review of the 8.42 Linux driver with all of the details about this much-anticipated release."

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  1. No wonder by moogied · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "This is coming 13 months after NVIDIA had introduced its AIGLX support"

    No Wonder AMD's stock is in the crapper. http://www.123jump.com/earnings-calls/AMD-Third-Quarter-Earnings-Call/23553/ [for those too lazy to rtfa, "recorded a net loss of $396 million"]

    Of course, there is not a large market segment that considers linux drivers when purchasing a new card... but still. It just shows lack of effort.

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  2. That's great but... by aicrules · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Vista users need not apply! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/23/1255235

    1. Re:That's great but... by aicrules · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Oops, sorry about that. I will try to be more vigilant in my quest for lame +5 funny posts :(

  3. Re:Bullshit... by markov_chain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nobody's locked out of anything, the source is there and you are welcome to fix it.

    It used to be that people complained about lack of specs useful for writing drivers. Now people complain about the vendor not writing the actual driver! Kids these days...

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