[ Thanks to Phoronix for this link.
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“Much to everyone’s surprise, earlier this month ATI released a
new set of display drivers (v8.14.13) which shocked the entire
Linux community. These drivers finally showed some major
improvements for ATI not only in performance, but also in the
driver installer and control panel. Although ATI still has a lot of
work ahead of them, if they want to become the leader in Linux
graphics cards, they’re slowly catching up and becoming more
competitive with the drivers that NVIDIA offers to the Linux
community. Even with NVIDIA taking much of the Linux market-share,
there still is another company trying to have its stake at Linux
graphics: XGI Technology. In this article, we’re going to be
sharing our thoughts regarding XGI Technology’s Linux display
drivers. The XGI graphics cards we have in front of us today is the
Volari V3XT and Volari V8, both of which are AGP 8x…”