New ATI drivers, 8.42.3, now with AIGLX!
That should actually read “sort of”. The new driver, which I just tried out, offers a lot better support of my crapesque Radeon x1600. Doubled my glxgears FPS, increased 2D desktop acceleration noticeably, and, in theory, allows the use of compiz without XGL, aka, the crappy x server.
While compiz would run, and wasn’t crushingly slow, it was too slow to use. Still, I wouldn’t have retreated from the driver if that’s all that was going on, because seriously, the extra 2D acceleration was very nice. The real trouble was when I went to test a game under wine. Screen would go black, and the cursor would change, then the video would go completely away. Too bad, since it sounded like it was cranking away faster. But, it makes me hopeful that ATI is finally getting its act together on the linux front.