Kombatant

I am mostly asking feature-wise. What do you think should be the No.1 feature that should be implemented asap? A better control panel? Overclocking options? Something else? I am curious to what the community has to say about this

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RIV@NVX

I like driver installer. However, there is a lot of stuff I would also like to see; from most important to least important:

* FreeBSD driver.
* Support for X.Org composite/damage extension.
* Better fglrxconfig. Perhaps it shouldn't generate entire xorg.conf, but only add the necessary stuff wherever needed. I never had luck with it and always had to edit xorg.conf by hand.
* Get rid of the internal agpgart if possible; submit patches to kernel in order to make the agpgart in kernel works as good as this one.
* Reduce installer size, if possible.
* Something similar or powerful as CCC or Windows CP. CCC is written in .net, which is C#, so it might be possible to port it.
* If that's not possible, perhaps an improved control panel with both GTK and QT frontends.
* OpenSolaris driver. Not nearly as important as FreeBSD, but would be nice.

Also, a question: How come that ATI always lists "we support 2.6.x kernel with this driver" in release notes? Is it really needed, since installer can now compile the driver for specific kernel automatically?

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BulletFx

in addition to what Riv@nvx said i'd really like an overclocking option something like radclocker for windows. it would be really appreciated.

RIV@NVX

Yeah, that would indeed be cool; but I would rather underclock than overclock
It would be even cooler if it would allow (automatic) downclocking to save some power on laptop battery. I think it's called PowerPlay on Windows Catalyst drivers.

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lcs

framebuffer_object, pixel_buffer_object

EDIT: Oh I forgot: GLX_SGI_video_sync

mtippett

pbuffers have been in for a while.

fbo's will come in a later release.

GLX_SGI_video_sync, I am not sure when.

Regards,

Matthew

Moshroum

Shouldn't "glxinfo |grep -i GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object" return something? Here it doesn't return anything (even when try "glxinfo |grep -i pixel_buffer" - when only non arb pixel_buffer_object is supported - i get nothing). So I would say that it maybe supports it (I haven't really tested it), but doesn't tell it via glGetString(GL_EXTENSIONS).

I forgot some informations:
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 XT Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.5140 (X4.3.0-8.14.13)

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1. Speed compared to windows version!
2. Speed compared to windows version!!
3. Speed compared to windows version!!!
4. Half-decent control panel that would replace fglrxconfig as much as it can.
5. Overdrive...

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RIV@NVX

I don't think you understand the point of fglrxconfig. It's simply ATI modified version of xorgconfig/xf86config. It is designed to generate xorg.conf. It's not (at least from what I understand) the tool to configure the card every time you want to start a game.
But I agree, it would be cool if the card settings could somehow be configured via control panel, by user that isn't necessarily root.

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lcs

Are we talking about the same thing? I mean EXT_pixel_buffer_object, similar to ARB_vertex_buffer_object but for memory-mapping textures.

GLX_SGI_video_sync: Being able to wait for vsync and draw a few pre-composed rectangles is nice, but one might be able to just swap buffers and draw to the front buffer. I've not tried yet.

EDIT: FBO: Never mind. (Another small test program works so I must have done something wrong in my code.)

DavoNogo

How about all the HDTV and SDTV resolutions found in the Windows version BUT(!!!) with a refresh rate of 50Hz as well as the usual 60Hz

so that means 1024x576i @ 50Hz, 1024x576p @ 50Hz, 1280x720p @ 50Hz, 1920x1080i @ 50Hz, and the two ATi optimised resolutions of 1152x648p and 1776x1000i, also at 50Hz

ronnn

I would mainly like to be able to install the *&^%%$ things. I wish they could make it straight forward like windows.

Eman Resu

A working installer would be nice (It didn't work in ubuntu), becouse manually compiling kernel module and bla bla bla is a pain in the ass.

A nice control panel like the old windows control panel (not the bloated .net thingy).

RENDER, DAMAGE and COMPOSITE extension would be nice too.

Ahm, and some performance.

fglrxconfig should only touch the sections it needs, not the whole thing, or ask about it.

ghost_zero

The things are already said:
-) smaller installer
-) speed as the Windows drivers
-) stability as the Windows drivers
-) all features as the Windows drivers (TV-Output, ...)
-) a good Linux control-panel

knuth

Improved multi-monitor support. Right now it's extremely inconvenient (i.e still isn't working properly).