2010/12/21 Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com>: > >> > > On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: >> > >> If you plan to >> > >> use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. >> > > >> > > Why? >> > > >> > > I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. >> > > The recent versions of x11-drivers/ati-drivers (currently 10.11) >> > > run just fine with the lastest kernel (2.6.36) and the latest >> > > xorg-server (1.9.2.902) >> > >> > If you have been an fglrx user for a long time you should know that's >> > not the usual case (unless things have changed drastically in the >> > last >> > few months). >> >> Yes, I do think it has changed recently. >> There is even a a more recent version 10.12 but not in the tree, yet. >> > > I've been using fglrx for 18 months without problem on amd64 (which is > currently using xorg 1.7.7). I would assume that ~amd64/~x86 would be more > troublesome as the driver will take some time to catch up with the latest > developments.
Admittedly, I never used stable arch, in either x86 or x86_64. Admittedly -as well- it's been long since I used any proprietary driver. I suggest using the open driver unless you need the extra power for gaming. Depending on your requisites the open driver might be ok for you even if you are a gamer. Such chip is very well supported nowadays when using the radeon free driver, even for 3d. It's just easier and you don't have to recompile anything each time you install a new kernel and/or xorg bumps its version number. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
