Rafael Fernández López wrote: >Well, I cannot turn on composite extension. Right. I'm sure that very early >ATI will improve linux's graphical drivers, as they're doing right now. > >They're developing better drivers, so there's no reason about thinking that >composite won't be enabled for ATI graphics card. > > >
I would not count on ATI "improving" their drivers. If they work for you, great, but there are known issues, such as no software suspend support, that have existed for more than one year (and I think closer to 2 years), and are listed in the notes for each release. And it isn't like suspend support is something new or difficult....almost every single open source driver for *any* hardware supports supports it. Another example was their crappy configuration script, that also needed fixing for over a year. (I think this just got upgraded...I'm not sure) Another example is it took them over 6 months to support x.org after it's initial release. My point is they seem to be mostly concerned about adding "support" for the latest-and-greatest graphics cards, without fixing the existing problems and deficiencies. And supporting new standards in X or the kernel are never done on a reasonable schedule. NVidia does a *little* better, but they still have issues with suspend as well. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
