X.org's DRI vs. ATi's Proprietary driver (Was: "Re: ATI Livna driver package (Something has changed)")

[Brian Mury]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 09:17 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> This is the first time I've seen any one say that the ATI drivers included in 
> the kernel were well-supported. Everything I've otherwise read has said that 
> the built in drivers were lacking in 3D/Open GL performance.

I have a 9200 (not SE), and I get much better performance with the built
in drivers than the fglrx drivers from livna. Perhaps I'm doing
something wrong when installing the livna packages...