Ok, this driver is amazing. All I can say is WOW! And it takes a LOT to impress me.
I did have it crash the desktop once while loading virtualbox minimized and unminimizing it, but that may have been virtualbox that did that since I think that may have happened with the old driver too. Everything feels 40% faster, and even glxgears shows a higher fps (I know that doesn't mean much, but it does correlate). glxgears doesn't cause the black blanking effect it did before, and I haven't been able to reproduce the bug mentioned above. It appears that freeciv still suffers from poor redraw, but I haven't tested it on a different graphics driver to see if the driver is really the cause. glxgears shows impressive graphics management where it runs at 30% cpu while showing in the foreground at 3000+ fps I might add (the old driver barely made 2200), but idles to 4% when obscured by other windows. There is a negative side effect to this reduction in that the fps results goes down, but if a window is obscured, that behaviour is acceptable to me since the window is not visible anyways and it frees cpu resources for other processes. I also required nomodeset on the kernel line before to boot into a graphical environment without crash. Now I can remove it without harm. All in all, I vote to move this driver into Karmic as the main driver for release. Of course, more testing is needed to ensure everyone has as positive a result as I am having. -- Screen corruption when changing focus xserver-xorg-video-ati https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
