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well...the X1600 or better need fglrx for any kind of better than vesa-quality support. older cards (i have a 9700) now work well on the open source radeon driver...in fact even beryl and most games work great w/o fglrx. that said though i am happy that the radeon drivers came a long way as of xorg 7.2... what bothers me is the fglrx drivers which fail @ life really really bad.
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08-21-2007, 06:34 PM
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Sony has a LONG and STRONG reputation of using a LOT of proprietary components that there are no linux drivers for and don't release specs for to develop drivers for that. Glad it is working for you, but I gotta say you got lucky.
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08-26-2007, 09:42 PM
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I don't think I agree with the statement that ATIs aren't so bad. The fglrx driver performance in 3D still sucks. I think it is 50-70% of windows driver performance. The place to look is www.phoronix.com as they look at the fglrx driver each time a new one comes out.
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08-30-2007, 11:37 PM
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I had a compal HEL80 and everything worked perfectly with ubuntu, except for the fingerprint-scanner. the new IFL90 should be the same way.
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