Sorry, I give up to preach *ubuntu

[Clemens Eisserer]

> i'm a tolerant person. i'm giving them till february to release some
> KDE4-compatible driver, if they don't, won't do it, i'm off to ATI, and
> i'll of course, let them know why as well. every company that
> disrespects it's clients, force them to use certain software, OS, or
> other crapware deserves to be abandoned!
And what then?
You'll have a hard time finding a R500 based card, because for all
others R600/700 (HD2x00-HD4x00) there are no open-source drivers which
offer at least 2D accaleration. The proprietary catalyst drivers offer
good OpenGL support, but don't provide *any* RENDER accaleration - so
they are much worse than NVidia.

I've benchmarked and tested the new 177.80 drivers, and although I
prefer free drivers I have to admit that NVidia has currently the
best-performing RENDER implementation across all driver/gpu
combinations. I hope Intel will come close once they've finished GEM
and will have done some tuning.

- Clemens