AMD/ATI/WTF
September 5, 2007
After being quiet on driver progress and bullied for it, two interesting news clips surface today:
- AMD to open up graphics specs
- 8.41 driver potentially has substantial performance improvements
Details are still emerging, but any news is welcome to someone who has a Thinkpad T60 with an ATI Mobility X1300.
September 5, 2007 at 7:47 pm
I’m curious if the new driver shares code with the Windows version, or if it is merely a new, separate Linux codebase which yet doesn’t suck. Either way, huge news. Shitty drivers for half the higher performance video cards out there was on the short list of things really holding Linux back. Opening specs is gravy.
September 13, 2007 at 2:05 am
hey, I use that laptop, too!
Good news, definitely. Hopefully it will actually pan out. It wasn’t until about January of this year that I got NTSC video to play full-screen on a non-source based system, and, well, graphics performance hasn’t really gone up since then. Kinda sad when the Geforce 4 MX in my tower spanks the X1300 in my laptop.