Comments on: RIP XGL

By: omniuni

omniuni — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:11:16 +0000

Actually, the ATi proprietary drivers are now very good. GL apps flicker, yes, but that is because of limitations in DRI. Newer versions of DRI will fix this. By sticking with standard X calls, and not creating strange patches, like nVidia has done, AMD has kept the fglrx driver much more stable than the nVidia ones. The open source ATi drivers are also quickly improving, especially with radeonHD on the way. I am very glad my new computer has an ATi card in it, because soon I will be using it with Open drivers, and not proprietary ones, and I actually have a good graphics card; e.g. not Intel. And thank you AMD for supporting the Open Source community, not just doing things on your own and leaving the poor X.org developers out of the loop! Wouldn’t it be nice if nVidia actually contributed their patch that keeps open GL apps from flickering when compositing is on so we could all use it?

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A morte do XGL « openSUSE in pt_BR! — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:03:41 +0000

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SearchRoads » scooby doo movies RIP XGL — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:15:59 +0000

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By: Kevin R

Kevin R — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:28:53 +0000

The official ATI drivers are terrible. Yeah, they implemented AIGLX about a year ago, but it still causes flickering with OpenGL apps open.

I’ve not tried the xf86-video-ati driver, but from what I have been able to gather it’s not quite up to snuff, even for gaming.

Honestly, I’d still take an nVidia card over my Radeon Mobility X1400.

By: Kevin Lange

Kevin Lange — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:22:51 +0000

@cybeborg: (type-o’d your name or something?) The -ati drivers are great, far more stable than the official nVidia drivers. Can’t say anything about the ATI drivers, though. Intel ftw.

By: cybeborg

cybeborg — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:43:40 +0000

@ reaple

ati better than nvidia. you must be on crap…

By: Kevin Lange

Kevin Lange — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:43:06 +0000

Good riddance?
XGL gave most users nothing but problems.
Viva la AiGLX.

@reaple: Yes, nVidia drivers suck. You should see what happens with them on my old GeForce2 board.

By: reaple

reaple — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:56:53 +0000

> Just give me good ATI-based card ^^

Ati fglrx drivers and open ones are ways better than nvidia crap. It looks like nvidia (and their customers) has big troubles with their drivers. They don’t provide acceleration for many of XRENDER functions (so, KDE4 is almost unusable for many users), Firefox is very slow etc. (just look at their forum). I also noticed that 3D performance is being worst from version to version. Unhappy nvidia customer…

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???? ??? Xgl ?????? « Black X — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:28:52 +0000

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By: karsten

karsten — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:57:50 +0000

what about david revemen and his idea about a more direct opengl baased framebuffer? is he still working on it? i think dropping the xgl source on the community was a bad idea, though techhnicaly it was pretty good