ATI has just released a new GPU Driver for Linux: Driver number 8.42.3

Linux users with ATI GPUs rejoice! ATI is making good on their commitment to the open source community and to Linux specifically.

Here's the link for anyone interested to the new ATI 8.41.7 GPU driver with accelerated 3D AIGLX support, bug fixes, and new added features and configuration settings!

 

I'm glad of this, but they're late into the game. I have already sold all my ATI-based stuff and refused to even consider a laptop with an ATI GPU inside it. They have a lot of catching up to do.

The first one to open-source their drivers will win this battle. I think it might be ATI but we'll see.

Greg.

 

GO LINUX! I have two computers with NVIDIA graphics and i don't think i'd buy one with NVIDIA ever again.

 

FYI, ATI has recently released almost 1000 previously confidential documents on their GPU architectures to the open source community, and more are in the works. ATI has already surpassed NVIDIA for Linux and the open source community IMO.

ATI has made a commitment to release an updated driver for Linux each and every month from now on, developed along side and concurrently with their Windoze counterpart. As I said, IMO ATI has already surpassed NVIDIA, and even furthermore appears to be in a position of dominance, and possibly continued dominance at that.

Go ATI!

 

About a week ago, I installed ATI's drivers for my NC8000. I'm plesantly surprised.
It has an ATI catalyst center, where I can control the color settings ( gamma)

 

It is good to hear they're taking it seriously. Somebody at ATI was listening it seems....

 

nVidia has that too btw. You have to install the package, but it's called nvidia-settings. Very similar to the classic Windows nVidia Control Panel, including multiple monitor support.

 

Can you control the power usage, as in the PowerPlay settings? Or is this somehow else taken care of in Linux?

 

ATI's powerplay is still handled through command line. Or if you're awesome, bash scripts.

 

Really? Why's that? I've got two computers with NVIDIA, and one with ATI, and the NVIDIA ones cause me much less headache when trying to get graphics and such running on them. I can't use Xv for video out with my ATI X1250, I have to use the generic X11. Fortunately I have a beefy CPU, so it's not as big of a deal. But still, ATI just hasn't worked well with Linux, and until they get good, working, open-source drivers, I'm gonna stick with NVIDIA, since their proprietary drivers actually work properly.

 

That may have been true in the past, but not anymore. ATI is in the game for real now, and they're leading the way.

 

I don't know how you can say that. They both have closed, proprietary drivers but ATI just came out with theirs - their first attempt at a real driver, ever. NVidia has been releasing updating theirs for a long time. ATI's old fglrx driver was a hunk of crap and the new one still doesn't do compositing. Anybody's who's wasted an entire day hacking at xorg.conf trying to get their ATI card to work right knows what I'm talking about.

ATI is fast-tracking their Linux support but they have a long way to go before they catch NVidia.

Greg.

 

I must say, my M90's NVIDIA drivers for quadro fx 1500 worked right out of the box. Compiz was running with absolutely no tweaking at 1920x1200.
And this was 1.5 years ago.