Public bug reported:
Running the Hardware Drivers (a misleading name as well, but that's bug
#202267) with an ATI card, it suggests you to install "ATI accelerated
driver". Of course that sounds tempting and many people install it when
they don't need to or shouldn't.
Since both the default open-source driver and the proprietary fglrx
driver are accelerated, this is pretty bad. In case someone missed it,
the open-source driver has had accelerated 3D support on r100, r200,
r300 and r400 cards for years, and of lately, also for r500.
A better name would be "ATI proprietary driver" or even better "ATI/AMD
proprietary fglrx driver". ATI/AMD because it makes it more obvious this
is an alternative from that company and not something needed for ATI
cards in general. fglrx because that's the name of the thing, and people
will understand better when we talk about the open-source "ati" driver
versus the proprietary "fglrx" driver.
** Affects: jockey (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ATI "accelerated" driver is misleading and causes problems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263359
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