[lug] AMD Catalyst Display Driver

[Maxwell Spangler]

On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 12:30 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> FWIW, the quality on the ati/amd binary only non-free driver seems
> pretty low. Lots of Fedora folks that try it out have problems or it
> doesn't work, or it doesn't keep working, etc. 

> The free radeon driver is improving quite nicely, so if you have a
> chance, you could try the version in RHEL6 or any more modern distro
> and see if it meets your needs. 

On my desktop at home with an ATI 54xx based card in it I can't easily
tell if I'm using the radeon driver or the ATI driver -- that's a
testament to how good the radeon driver is getting.

But on my HP ProBook laptop at work with an HP docking station, I have
to run the ATI binary driver to get two external monitors to work.
Something about this laptop or the dock is unique or non-standard or
cursed and it does very strange things without the ATI driver.

So just for the record, there are some really good cases where the
binary drivers are required.  I appreciate ATI for providing them.

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