'ati' video driver and older cards (no RadeonHD), a little question...

[Faizan Kazi]

yup!
thanks for your help!

~fez

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Vincent Trouilliez <
vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:17:38 +0600
> Faizan Kazi <faizan.s.kazi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > all these terms confuse me sometimes... "ati binary driver" = "ati
> > proprietary driver" = fglrx ??
> > is that correct?
>
> That's it :-)
> It's confusing because 'ati' (all lower case) refers to teh free
> driver, which can be confused with ATI (upper case) which designates
> the manufacturer, whose driver, proprietary, is called "fglrx".
> So the free driver is 'ati', and the 'ATI' driver is "fglrx", to sum
> up ! ;-)
> So the only way out is to pay great attention to the case of the
> letters to make sure people don't confuse the two.
>
> > also, i thought ati has now started using aiglx instead of fglrx/glx?
>
> You are confused indeed ! ;-) "aiglx" and "glx" are Linux/Xorg
> infrastructure pieces, "fglrx" is the (ATI) driver, so when you write
> "fglrx/glx", you are comparing apples with carrotts, it does have any
> sense ;-)
> What you can compare is glx with aiglx, and the "fglrx" with the "ati"
> driver. I have not tracked this topic for some years, but ISTR that
> aiglx quickly became the favored method for compiz/effects, and that
> both Nvidia and ATI have fairly quickly updated their drivers to
> implement it.
>
> Hope I have cleared up your confusion ? ;-)
>
>
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