AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview
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| Whether you are using a Radeon X300 purchased a few years ago or the Radeon
| X1950PRO, the 8.41 driver is noticeably faster. How much faster? In many
| cases it is about 50% faster while in some configurations it may go as high
| as 90% or more. In fact, in some benchmarks the Mobility Radeon X300 was over
| 10x faster!
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=821&num=1
This is really big! AMD will also help the development of the open source
driver!
Related:
Free ATI drivers for Christmas?
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| "They know that we exist, because I've talked with a few people," he
| says. "And AMD may be wanting open source drivers."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118724
Open-Source ATI Driver Gets TV-Out Support
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| Thanks to recent commits in the RandR 1.2 branch for the open-source X.Org
| Radeon driver, it's now possible to use S-Video and composite TV output on
| your ATI graphics card without any patches.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=806&num=1
Avivo R500 Linux Driver Status
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| A month ago we told you that Avivo v0.1.0 (the open-source ATI R500 X1000
| Linux driver) was coming soon, but still we have not seen this release.
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http://phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTk2NQ
Avivo vs. Fglrx Driver In GtkPerf
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| As you can see from the timed results, the GTK+ performance when using
| the Avivo driver with ShadowFB enabled had sharply outperformed the
| 8.39 fglrx driver (partly due to the CPU operations).
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=779&num=1
ATI R200 TV-Out In Open-Source Driver
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| The GATOS project has long been known as the path to take for enabling TV
| output support with the open-source X.Org driver on the Radeon 8500 to 9250
| (R200) series, but soon you may no longer need to worry about the GATOS
| patch.
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http://www.phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTkzNg
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