ATI driver choice / mergedFB / power management

[David Abrahams]

David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> writes:

> "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 8/10/06, David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On my Thinkpad T60p I am currently running fglrx, but I have no
>>> commitment to that.  In particular, I don't care about graphics
>>> performance at all except that I like a snappy UI (well, I like the
>>> OpenGL screensavers too, but that's not really important).
>>>
>>
>> Ati has not realsed any documentation on the avivo based chips, so
>> there is no open source support for them at the moment.  If you want
>> any acceleration of special features, you are stuck with fglrx.
>
> Thanks.  Someone from ATI contacted me privately after seeing my post
> on an Xorg list.  Very impressive responsiveness!
>
> He claims an 8.28 driver is coming out soon that will address most of
> my concerns.

It's out now.  Haven't got a dock yet, so I can't test the digital
hotplug feature.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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