Re: [Mactel-linux-users] some good news?

[Michael G. <mig...@gm...>]

> Exact.
>
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11281
>
> And the bug I reported above is now corrected. The free software
> driver works for me on my MBP 17" (rev1).
>
> No acceleration is available yet, but it is already usable for me (I
> use it to write this mail).
>
> If you want to have a great free software video driver and say good
> bye to the AMD/ATI proprietary driver just try the avivo driver and
> report any bugs you have on the bugs.freedesktop.org bug tracker.
>
> Bye


Great to see you are on this list too!
Can you tell us anything about the power consumption of this driver? Longer 
battery life?

Michael