Other than the obvious morally questionable issue of pitching proprietary software into a GNU/Linux distribution, it also causes a lot of practical problems. Installing fglrx breaks the open-source mesa libraries, and people have lot of trouble when they try to revert to the ati driver. Many computers get suspend broken by fglrx. Etc.
** Description changed: 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, and - r300 cards for years, and of lately, also for r400 and r500. + 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. -- ATI "accelerated" driver is misleading and causes problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263359 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
