[ltp] ATI Driver - Thinkpad T43 w/ X300

[Igor V. Rafienko]

on Mar 9, 2006, 16:07, Harish Narayanan wrote:

>> Is there any reason that I shouldn't upgrade my current default driver 
>> to ati's 8.22.5?


Incidentally, 8.23.7 is out. The OP may want to jump onto that.

[ ... ]


> It is proprietary software, and you're tainting your otherwise fully
> Free default installation.


<sarcasm>Yeah, because the free alternatives are *sooooo* much 
better...</sarcasm>

It is very nice to adhere to principles. It is even nicer to have working 
3D hardware acceleration. YMMV, as always. Don't get me wrong, radeon is 
nice for a number of applications, but unfortunately the stable releases 
of xorg on a number of platforms do not include r300 yet, and radeon 
itself does not provide 3D acceleration for the X300-family.





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