ATI Releases ATI Catalyst 10.1 Drivers, Now with Support for Ubuntu 9.10
by Paul Lilly | Posted 01/28/10 at 08:05:51 AM
AMD this week released the first of twelve scheduled Catalyst launches this year, the first of which brings the driver suite up to version 10.1.
The new driver package offers a pinch of performance improvements, including up to a 3 percent boost in Left for Dead 2 on ATI Radeon HD 5700 and 5800 series videocards, as well as boosts Crysis framerates by up to 3 percent on ATI Radeon HD 5700 cards and up to 4 percent on 5800 hardware.
From: Aaron (KING_AARONJ) [#7] 28 Jan 18:01 To: Cagey (KGWAGNER) [#5] 28 Jan 18:18
No problem. I have a friend with ATI troubles in 9.10 so I just wanted to pass it on. It's good to see that ATI is pitching in to make their linux drivers better :)
From: Cagey (KGWAGNER) [#8] 28 Jan 18:21 To: Aaron (KING_AARONJ) [#7] 28 Jan 20:10
They've been saying they're better for years, and each time they come out with a fresh driver revision it's "This time for sure!", but they continue to cause a lot of grief so I'll take this announcement with a grain of salt until I hear from a large number of people that they've finally got something useful.
From: leonsk [#10] 28 Jan 20:16 To: Aaron (KING_AARONJ) [#9] 28 Jan 20:20
I have been doing well with the 3400 in my HTPC under Mint Gloria. Have not really tried doing any 3D, not sure if it would do any. Might give this new one a try.
Be interested in your friend's experience, particularly if he runs Linux.
From: Aaron (KING_AARONJ) [#12] 29 Jan 12:15 To: ALL
So my friend tried the new ATI drivers and hosed his computer. He's a command line guru so he got the old ones working again, but he's waiting till they arrive in the Ubuntu repositories to make another attempt.
From: leonsk [#17] 31 Jan 19:25 To: dimbulb [#16] 1 Feb 8:14
The world is converging. Windows is replete with all much of the bling that Compiz has had for some years now, and is getting a bit more secure. Now to work on the price aspect.
Even that may be underway. Yesterday at our meeting Woody Leonhard mentioned that his guesstimate for OEM new computer pricing for Win7 Home Basic is about US$25 for the big dudes. This is far below the guesstimates of US$40 for WinXP for same type installs.
Don't even mention the apps. The iPhone has us all beaten down with some 140k apps available. Really important must-have thingies, fer sure.
From: Cagey (KGWAGNER) [#18] 1 Feb 0:25 To: leonsk [#17] 1 Feb 1:56
You gotta figure that even if they're bullshitting, the major OEMs are telling Microsoft to wise up on pricing or they'll start their own marketing campaign for a different OS. They won't call it "free", but they'll say it's just as good and comes with a bazillion free apps. People would go apeshit. HP and Dell can certainly afford to blanket the market with ads that will eventually convince people, and the major apps are all good enough to pull it off. Firefox is certainly better than IE, OO can be made to look better than Office, almost any open source media player is better than Media Player, and so on. The savings on licensing fees alone would more than pay for such a thing.
The only thing you can't do with Linux is play the top-end games, but I'll bet you dollars to donut holes that if Dell and HP went nuts pushing Linux, it would only take 10-12 months before all the big game developers had their stuff ported. They're in business to make money, and you gotta ride the big dog's coattails to do that.
There is no Linux corporation, so there's no marketing department. That's the only thing holding it back.
From: leonsk [#19] 1 Feb 2:31 To: Cagey (KGWAGNER) [#18] 1 Feb 7:50
You know it and I know it, and even some governments are catching on.
The OEMs just want an OS that they can flog off, something that's popular, thus almost certainly MS ware. But there is another big gorilla just entering the cage and there may be a change of game. Google is focusing on the browser and the cloud. Android is making some favorable marks in the phone end, and thus earning some OS creds. Put out a web applicance eg. a tablet to work with the cloud and that which could be a suitable entry-level device to get respectable. Then expand ... the Google crowd has shown as much innovation as Jobs mob, and St. Steve is not the picture of health.
I can see that type of scenario coming on, but the cruel fact is the pure volume of existing corporate seats occupied by MS apps. That particular flywheel will keep spinning a while yet. So MS will eke out a living with further SPs camouflaged as major releases, but hard to see anything innovative coming out from Redmond while Ol' Bullethead is at top.
From: dimbulb [#20] 1 Feb 8:36 To: leonsk [#19] 1 Feb 18:32
Linux is great.
But hardly anyone uses it.
Linux is free.
But hardly anyone uses it. Probably not free enough?
Linux is stable.
But I can't keep my damned monitors working from release to release.
Linux is secure.
But I've never had a security problem with Windows so who cares.
Linux is the OS of the future.
And always will be.