Dear lazyweb: ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 drivers

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Thu Oct 21 13:22:09 UTC 2010


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 14:23, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>> fglrx = ATI binary only driver for Xorg and various chipsets are
>> supported by different versions
>>
>> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/radeon for information on radeon and
>> radeonhd Xorg drivers
>>
> 
> Thanks, that much I knew. But the "what works best" in XYZ environment
> changes to rapidly, and it's not because things are improving!
> 

Tell me about it. I finally gave up and went Nvidia. It does not matter 
how much better ATI is (was?) at offloading video decoding from the 
processor, if I can't use it it becomes moot point.

Besides which, ATI/AMD does not provide Solaris drivers.




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