Where are the open source ATI drivers?

[miggols99]

I heard about the open source ATI drivers, and also heard that AIGLX will be available this month. Where are they? I have held back from using XGL with the fglrx drivers because of bad perfomance and having to set it up...

[igknighted]

I heard about the open source ATI drivers, and also heard that AIGLX will be available this month. Where are they? I have held back from using XGL with the fglrx drivers because of bad perfomance and having to set it up...

There is a new opensource driver out there, apparently it is usable but definitely beta. You are more than welcome to compile it yourself and try it out, I unfortunately do not have a link. It might be only for r500 and r600 chips, so it might not work for you. I would not expect for this to be a viable option for a few months (until the drivers mature some) for most users. Hopefully come feature freeze for the spring releases it will be good enough to warrant inclusion. If you want some information on how the testing is going check out www.phoronix.com, they recently had an article on this.

Fglrx 8.42 should be out sometime very soon. Typically they are about a month between releases, and the last was Sept 12. Seeing as it is October 16th, I think that it could well be out this week.

Be patient, it's coming ;)

EDIT: radeonhd update: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=863&num=1

[ssam]

http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=radeonhd&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all

xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd is available in gutsy.

i have heard that radeonhd should be pretty good for 2d by the end of the year.

[Radon]

The version in the Ubuntu repository is 3 months old.

Here (http://dropstech.org/2007/09/26/instalando-o-driver-radeonhd-no-ubuntu/) are instructions to install the latest version. Phoronix (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE5Ng) today mentioned that they now support x1250! \\:D/