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-| name = fglrx
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-| developer = [[Advanced Micro Devices]]
-| latest_release_version = Catalyst 10.8
-| latest_release_date = {{release date and age|2010|08|25}}
-| operating_system = [[Linux]]
-| genre = [[Device driver]]
-| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
-| website = [http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html ati.amd.com]
-}}
-{{lowercase}}
-'''fglrx''' is the name of the [[Linux]] display driver used for [[ATI Technologies|ATI]] [[Radeon]] and [[ATI FireGL]] family video adapters and stands for "FireGL and Radeon for [[X Window System|X]]". It contains [[free software|free]] [[open source software|open source]] as well as [[proprietary software|proprietary]] and [[Binary blob|closed source]] parts.
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-== Criticism ==
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-AMD/ATI Linux support has been heavily criticized over the last number of years. From stability and performance issues as well as lack of options, AMD/ATI proprietary drivers have not been received well.<ref>[http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13267 AMD Linux 2008 Year in Review] on [[Phoronix]]. Mostly negative [http://www.phoronix.com/review2forums.php?view=amd_ayir_2008 forum response].</ref><ref>[http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/1532215 Insight Into AMD's Linux Driver Development (2007)]</ref><ref>[http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/20/1433230 The State of ATI Drivers on GNU/Linux (2006)]</ref><ref>[http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/30/197259 A Look at the State of ATI Linux Drivers (2005)]</ref>
-The state of the driver has improved over time with ATI trying to work in concert with application developers recently, but this is expected to be a slow process.<ref>[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user/36669 WineD3D developer statement] concerning fglrx (2008-12)</ref> As of August 2009, many issues still remain: Video playback occasionally has quality and stability problems, especially in [[Xine]].<ref>[http://ati.cchtml.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=xine fglrx bugs] for "Xine"</ref> 2D benchmarks show that ATI cards using these drivers are two orders of magnitude slower than the competing NVIDIA cards in basic tasks such as text rendering,<ref>[http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7#c24 fglrx bug 7] created 2005-01</ref> making even [[Terminal emulator|graphic consoles]] feel sluggish.  However the Catalyst 10.6 drivers released in June 2010 may have fixed this problem, providing 2D acceleration comparable to the Windows drivers<ref>[http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODM0Mg AMD Catalyst 10.6 For Linux Brings Changes]</ref>.
-== Alternatives ==
-For ATI cards and the [[X.Org Server]], a [[Graphics_hardware_and_FOSS#ATI.2FAMD|number of open source drivers]] are available.<!-- use other page for OSS driver details. -->
-==See also==
-*[[Graphics hardware and FOSS]]
-==References==
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-== External links ==
-*[http://wiki.cchtml.com/ Unofficial Linux ATI Wiki]
-*[http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Fglrx The Fglrx page on the Thinkpad wiki]
-*[http://debian.wgdd.de/temp/fglrx_man/fglrx.4x.html fglrx options use in X configuration files (x*.conf)]. This is a [[manpage]] created from public records and is available [http://cvs.wgdd.de/cgi-bin/cvsweb/fglrx_man here] via [[Concurrent Versions System|cvs]].
-*[http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ R520 Card specifications] released to public by [[AMD]].
-*[http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/rms-ati-protest.html Protest in 2006 against ATI] nearly led to the arrest of [[Richard Stallman]].
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-[[Category:Linux drivers]]
-[[Category:Third-party Linux kernel modules]]
-[[Category:X Window System]]
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