Wintershade wrote: > > jeffz wrote: > > fglrx is closed source > > > hasn't AMD put fglrx in open-source recently? just to clarify: Wikipedia may be your best friend after google wrote: > fglrx is the name of the Linux display driver used for ATI Radeon and ATI FireGL family video adapters and stands for "FireGL and Radeon for X". It contains free open source as well as proprietary and closed source parts. For proper Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) support, the kernel source code for the currently running kernel must be installed and compiled. The driver can work without the kernel module, but DRI will not be available.
