AMD Releases Open Source Fusion Driver

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday AMD released open source Linux driver support for their Fusion APUs, primarily for the first Ontario processor. As detailed on Phoronix, this includes support for kernel mode-setting, 2D acceleration, and 3D acceleration via both Mesa and Gallium3D graphics drivers."

Re:Linux drivers - stable??

[hedwards]

Assuming that you're on a blessed platform. I remember waiting for nVidia to release their drivers for 64-bit Linux. It took a really long time from when I started waiting, and I waited a few years before getting an AMD64 system.

But now there is support for Windows, OSX and Linux. If your OS isn't on that list then they aren't providing you with anything, or even the ability to do it yourself without doing some real funky stuff with wrappers.

Re:Fusion

[RightSaidFred99]

huh? [geek.com]

Double huh? [anandtech.com]

It's rare to read someone post something both factually and subjectively wrong at the same time in so few words. Congratulations.

Re:Price of Android pod touch

[SuricouRaven]

Unfair comparison: The Android phone is also a phone. You should be comparing equivilent products: An Android phone vs the iPhone.
I'm not sure about Android portable media players, but there are tablets that could be regarded as equivilent in intended use to an iPad.

Re:Cool

[SuricouRaven]

I've not got a 5850, but a close ATI card. I found that the drivers ubuntu installed were unstable and quite awkward in multi-monitor configurations, but the ones that I got straight from the ATI site worked very nicely. They are the same basic software, right down to the control panel layout, but the ones on the site are a few revisions further along and it shows. At least in the multi-monitor area.

Re:Price of Android pod touch

[MrHanky]

Funny. Last time I bought a PC, the cheapest Apple option for my needs was the most expensive iMac. It would have cost twice what I paid, and performed worse. Apple simply isn't competitive in the midrange.

Re:Price of Android pod touch

[AvitarX]

Just looked at their prices too, they've gotten worse.

And the crappy displays on the iMacs (maybe this has improved) kill them for serious use, leaving the cheapest desktop at $2500, and it's only one CPU.

But trying to match their 5k computer at Dell runs 6k.