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| smallfoot- | Will AMD release a new Catalyst driver with support for Xserver 1.17? | 18:12 |
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| mlankhorst | eventually.. | 18:12 |
| mlankhorst | we've had 1.17 in the ppa for ages.. | 18:12 |
| smallfoot- | Will Vivid get Xserver 1.17 or are we stuck with 1.16? | 18:12 |
| smallfoot- | oh cool | 18:13 |
| mlankhorst | https://launchpad.net/~canonical-x/+archive/ubuntu/x-staging | 18:13 |
| mlankhorst | but without fglrx.. | 18:13 |
| smallfoot- | thanks | 18:17 |
| smallfoot- | AMD pisses me off | 18:17 |
| smallfoot- | I won't buy any of their products, but I still get punished with old software because of them | 18:18 |
| mlankhorst | why not use the free software drivers? | 18:19 |
| mlankhorst | I haven't used the blob in ages on radeon, no need to | 18:20 |
| JanC | I guess for gamers Catalyst is still needed maybe | 18:32 |
| JanC | I haven't used fglrx for ages either | 18:33 |
| smallfoot- | I use free software drivers, I only use free software drivers, I use Intel | 18:33 |
| smallfoot- | but even when I use Intel, I am held back with old version of X thanks to AMD dragging their feet | 18:33 |
| smallfoot- | and its the same thing every new X release | 18:34 |
| smallfoot- | mlankhorst, any idea when 1.17 will be put into vivid repo? | 18:44 |
| mlankhorst | when we get fglrx.. | 19:15 |
| smallfoot- | I see | 19:59 |
| smallfoot- | is there any estimate of when AMD will give fglrx? | 20:00 |
| tjaalton | any dates are under nda, so no | 20:04 |
| smallfoot- | imho, ubuntu should switch to 1.17 asap and recommend intel and nvidia and give amd the finger | 20:27 |
| tjaalton | that wouldn't solve a thing | 20:48 |
| smallfoot- | well, it would pressure them to stop dragging their feet | 20:51 |
| smallfoot- | and it would get us non-amd users the latest xorg faster | 20:51 |
| smallfoot- | now we're all getting punished by amd whether we buy amd or not | 20:51 |
| tjaalton | it would just punish fglrx users that's all | 21:31 |
| smallfoot- | well, it would unpunish intel and nvidia users | 21:40 |
| JanC | smallfoot-: actually, it would unpunish AMD users too | 22:02 |
| JanC | (those who use the open source driver) | 22:02 |
| JanC | OTOH, Ubuntu got permission to use a pre-release fglrx in the past, and I suppose they don't want to blow up that relationship prematurely | 22:05 |
| smallfoot- | JanC, indeed | 22:08 |
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