Posted on Sunday, November 04 2007 @ 5:25 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
For those that may have missed it, the ATI/AMD fglrx 8.42
display driver that was released last month had introduced AIGLX
support. The open-source "Radeon" driver for ATI graphics cards going up
to the R400 generation has supported AIGLX for quite some time, but the
ATI binary display driver hadn't until last month. However, one of the
complaints about the fglrx implementation of AIGLX is that in the 8.42.3
driver, some are encountering slow performance in Compiz / Compiz
Fusion. We have taken an ATI Radeon X800XL 256MB PCI-E graphics card,
which is supported by both the Radeon and fglrx drivers, and have
compared their Compiz performance in a few different scenarios.
Read on
at Phoronix.
