[ltp] ATI driver choice / mergedFB / power management

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:10:54 -0400


On 8/10/06, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>
> On my Thinkpad T60p I am currently running fglrx, but I have no
> commitment to that.  In particular, I don't care about graphics
> performance at all except that I like a snappy UI (well, I like the
> OpenGL screensavers too, but that's not really important).
>

Ati has not realsed any documentation on the avivo based chips, so
there is no open source support for them at the moment.  If you want
any acceleration of special features, you are stuck with fglrx.

Alex