[Gllug] Kubuntu 8.04 & a decent Video card

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On 7 Feb 2010, John Hearns verbalised:
> Me, I download the Nvidia/ATI  drivers every time. I've got users to
> support and a job to do which involves getting things running as well
> as possible.

The ATI drivers are for modern ATI cards substantially *worse* than the
free ones. e.g. my brand-new-last-year ATI card has no support at all...
and the ATI driver is *dog* slow, slower than Radeon KMS is now even
though Radeon KMS doesn't even support interrupts yet. And fglrx leaks
memory like a sieve.

fglrx is crap, crap code. Even its authors think so. Literally code not
even its mother could love.

> You really DON'T want to explain to your bosses why a spiffing new
> workstation with a state of the art 3800 graphics card has no hardware
> acceleration and is pretending to be a VGA card.

That card's only new-ish, actually. Two years old and rv670: it's an
r600, not an r700, let alone the recently-released r800.
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