Ati fglrx video driver

[Jan Rekorajski]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Zsolt Udvari wrote:

> Thanks for response!
> 
> If you want fglrx then you can't upgrade xserver. ATI is very slow when
> > dealing with new xservers.
> >
> > So you have two options, wait for ATI to release supported version or try
> > to
> > use -ati driver.
> >
> And this driver has 3D hardware acceleration?

It has pretty good 3D, at least on my HD4650.

But ati driver has a tendency to overheat the GPU, my card is 15C hotter
with ati driver than with fglrx. See also:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/557829
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27705

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