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Given the fact that I just upgraded my graphics card, finally, to a |
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Radeon hd4650 (rv730 chip), from the way old Radeon 9200 (rv280) I had |
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before, I'm now eager to see support for it beyond the live git -9999 |
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package I'm running ATM. There's certainly still enough glitches in the |
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OpenGL stuff that it's not ready for prime-time yet, but it does work |
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very well considering it's live-git, acceptably well for a first beta or |
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so, and running the x11 overlay with the latest otherwise ~arch packages |
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(not live -9999), the xf86-video-ati driver is the only one I'm having to |
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run live. |
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I'd love to have a beta or pre tagged release, or even a git-snapshot |
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release, that supported the current functionality (as of |
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2009.1208 f082b1693d6f7f763ccf5a8436a89890ca2c6129), in case there's some |
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regression or the live version is unbuildable at some point. Beyond |
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that, just curious what the current roadmap looks like. |
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FWIW, it was a great upgrade! I don't regret it in the least, and it's |
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very nice to finally have effects such as cube desktop switch, cover-flow |
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window switch, snow on the desktop, etc, in my kde4. =:^) The old card |
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did OpenGL but not at the dual 1920x1200 stacked for 1920x2400 resolution |
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I'm running, as its limit was 2048 either direction. Glitches are |
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"interesting", even psychedelic at times, but livable, at least after I |
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turned off font anti-aliasing. Before that, fonts were nearly unreadable. |
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And KMS (2.6.32 kernel required) is very nice as well! =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |