Archives for September 2007

How To: Compiz on an ATI — die, fglrx

I cannot for the life of me understand why every guide out there that explains how to use Compiz-Fusion on an ATI card pushes you to use the proprietary fglrx. Please understand — I hate the GPL; I am not an open source zealot; being non-proprietary does not make things better.

Being able to open Firefox and Calculator, scroll in Firefox, and not have the Calculator scroll into Firefox because of piss-poor VRAM management, on the other hand, does.

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