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Larabel: Is The ATI Driver Really “Evil”?

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ML
Michael Larabel
Jan 31, 2007

“Coming across this Digg article yesterday afternoon I found
many of the comments to be quite inaccurate (and in some cases
comical). A majority of the comments consisted of users bashing the
fglrx drivers by typing a variety of obscenities. Those that had
bothered to explain themselves were mostly disturbed due to the
lack of Composite and Beryl/Compiz support. But does this really
equate to the driver being evil and ATI/AMD not caring about their
customers?

“While the current fglrx drivers do not support Beryl/Compiz
(without XGL), is it really that big of a deal…?”

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Michael Larabel

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