On Thursday 07 May 2009 12:32:52 Martin Olsson wrote: > There is a "storm in a cup" going on in bug 351186 over fglrx performance > issues. Now these guys have found an old xserver patch from RH that fixes > their issue but it might very well be that this patch introduces > regressions for -ati users? Personally, I prefer the open source driver, > but I don't know how big the difference is (especially for gaming and > recent cards) and I hate to see Ubuntu get a bad rep because of stuff like > this. The "#if 0" from the patch is most likely not acceptable and doing a > runtime "if (fglrx)" extends the testing matrix making it unmaintainable. > It would be interesting to hear what the fglrx devs say about it, i.e. if > they will fix this in their bits somehow? Can they? > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/351186
I think the 107_fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch caused graphical corruptions in KDE 4 which is why we dropped it. Regards, -- Alberto Milone Sustaining Engineer (system) Foundations Team Canonical OEM Services -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
