Playing again with the ATI proprietary driver

I’ve been using the ATI fglrx driver from the Gutsy repos, and it works pretty well. What I don’t like about them is that to use Compiz, I have to use XGL.. Now, this is easy enough to do in Gutsy, just apt-get install xserver-xgl and restart. However, xgl slows things down significantly, so I would prefer to use aiglx, as can be done with the free/open ATI driver.

In November, ATI/AMD released a new fglrx driver that supported aiglx, but all the reports I heard said it was still a bit buggy…so I waited.

If I can find time soon, I will test out the newest driver that was just released on December 19th. In the meanwhile, if you get a chance to play with it before I do, please write a quick comment here and let me know what you think. Thanks!

7 comments December 21st, 2007