Comment 32 for bug 313027

"I find this attitude counterproductive and naive."

That comment is pretty hurtful to the devs, who volunteer their time (and I'm not one of them). I think you should reconsider your position: either move back to intrepid (where your hardware is supported), wait till the fglrx driver becomes available or look into the open source drivers. No one is forcing you to use jaunty.

The whole premise of your argument is that the fglrx driver isn't being developed fast enough for you, but you can't ask people to fix the fglrx closed source driver - they don't have the source.

You also can't expect them to build support for your card from scratch overnight. Open source support is coming in the radeon and radeonhd drivers, and for many people it's already there.

"At the very least this issue is divided two ways: between the AMD development team and the X-Org development team. As I see it, the X-Org team is responsible for developing a more flexible, stable, and compatible server while the AMD team is responsible for making a more universal driver."

Why do you think you should be allowed to dictate the priorities of the X-Org team? And why do you think you should be able to enforce anything on the AMD team who have put out a binary blob? If you want stability, use the open source drivers, where these issues don't come up.

You might want to take note that the comparable nvidia driver was already released last month, so if anyone has the right to complain about the shifting API, it should be the nvidia crew, who seem to be putting the most effort into keeping up with it - but I don't seem to be hearing any grumbling coming from them anywhere.

I have also heard that AMD has also been very supportive of providing documentation for the development of open source drivers for their hardware - I think you can see where the priorities will be shifting in the future.

At any rate, I think there are several viable solutions available to you, depending on your hardware. This afternoon, I discovered that removing all of the fglrx packages and switching to ati (radeon) driver actually gave me better performance on my card than fglrx ever did, and allowed me to get compiz running again. (You can find instructions on how to do this on several forums and wikis...)

So, rather than complaining about the closed source drives, give the open source ones a shot - you might be surprised at how much these people have already done with the resources available to them.

Meanwhile, if you want the driver put out by ATI, you'll either have to send letters to *them* to hurry up, or you can join the rest of the people and "just wait". (=