<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - Ditching xf86-video-ati in favor of xf86-video-modesetting?" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94842#c4">Comment # 4</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - Ditching xf86-video-ati in favor of xf86-video-modesetting?" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94842">bug 94842</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:Hi-Angel@yandex.ru" title="Hi-Angel <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>"> Hi-Angel</a> <pre>(In reply to N. W. from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=94842#c0">comment #0</a>) > Hello, > > according to the discussion in the following Phoronix forum thread: > > <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/">https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/</a> > 863332-intel-s-unreleased-3-0-x-org-driver-gets-more-fixes-for-dri3-present > > the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver included in xorg-server seems > to be better than most vendor specific xf86-video- drivers. Problems mentioned there are specifically about xf86-video-intel. Although I do agree — it'd be cool if everyone contributed to a single driver. > I am wondering: > > Then why not ditch xf86-video-ati in favor of xf86-video-modesetting? > > Regards I was just wondering alike, but about my local PC. So, just FTR, if anyone would query the internet for the same question: upon research I didn't find much difference between -ati and -modesetting. From the latest benchmarks I found (April 2016) they seem to have comparable performance. Then I looked an activity of both drivers, and found that -modesetting¹ has latest commit 3(!) years ago, whilst -ati² just 4 days ago. So, for end-users: unless you see problems, it's better to stick with -ati. 1: <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-modesetting/log/">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-modesetting/log/</a> 2: <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/log/">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/log/</a></pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>