[fr-list] New ati drivers

[mtlagm at gmail.com]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Matthias Saou wrote:

> At least on simple single head setups, you only need the proprietary
> driver in two cases :
> 1) The free radeon driver only provides accelerated 2D and you
> absolutely need accelerated 3D.
> 2) The free radeon driver just doesn't work for you.

I'd also add that the free version requires sensibily more
CPU power for movie play or windowing -- may be important for
laptop users. :)

Mihai