Dear Mr Ati,

Dear Mr ATI,

Please, please, please, couldn't you just give us an fglrx with AIGLX support? We've been waiting patiently since... oooh... at least last September. We've been fudging with XGL and LD_PRELOAD and so on, and it's very painful.

We know you're busy with your fancy new Catalyst thingymajig. But we don't want it as much as other things. Really.

There's no point in having the porcelain if the plumbing is broken. And it is broken. AIGLX is just the tip of the iceberg. Your driver causes an oops if I try to hibernate with the fglrx module loaded but X not actually started. I can start Beryl exactly once (Yes, using --use-copy and so on as described on the Beryl project pages). After that, nada. If I logout from X, X doesn't restart.

Please, don't give us a new shiny gui yet. Give us a driver that works and works well. Better still, give Dave and the other hard working Linux-DRI guys the details for our cards that they need so that they can write a really good, open source driver with less than half the effort they're having to use at the moment.

Oh, and remind me, next time I buy a laptop, to think about whether everything is going to have open source drivers.