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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>
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>
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>


Comparing the driver choices given on Linux only, the open-source options exhibit worse performance than fglrx <ref>[http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_driver_q111&num=1 Comparison of radeon drivers by Phoronix]</ref> on Radeon HD2000 and later chips.
Comparing the driver choices given on Linux only, the open-source options exhibit worse performance than fglrx <ref>[http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_driver_q111&num=1 Comparison of radeon drivers by Phoronix]</ref> on Radeon HD2000 and later chips.

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fglrx
Developer(s)Advanced Micro Devices
Stable release
Catalyst 10.12 / December 13, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-12-13)
Operating systemLinux
TypeDevice driver
LicenseProprietary
Websiteati.amd.com

fglrx is the name of the Linux display driver used for ATI Radeon and ATI FireGL family video adapters and stands for "FireGL and Radeon for X". It contains free open source as well as proprietary and closed source parts.

Criticism

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.[1][2][3][4]

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.[5] As of August 2009, many issues still remain: Video playback occasionally has quality and stability problems, especially in Xine.[6]

Comparing the driver choices given on Linux only, the open-source options exhibit worse performance than fglrx [7] on Radeon HD2000 and later chips.

Alternatives

For ATI cards and the X.Org Server, a number of open source drivers are available.

See also

References

  1. ^ AMD Linux 2008 Year in Review on Phoronix. Mostly negative forum response.
  2. ^ Insight Into AMD's Linux Driver Development (2007)
  3. ^ The State of ATI Drivers on GNU/Linux (2006)
  4. ^ A Look at the State of ATI Linux Drivers (2005)
  5. ^ WineD3D developer statement concerning fglrx (2008-12)
  6. ^ fglrx bugs for "Xine"
  7. ^ Comparison of radeon drivers by Phoronix
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