Comment 45 for bug 568988

@44 and @all
I don't think I'm too unkind in the end. IMHO it is a real advantage for me to know what I am doing. Mostly I reach this goal reading the whole stuff. In this special case I would read the comments on bug 351186 #126 #127 #128 #174 #218 #219 about no-backfill.

The no-backclear is described at #228 #234 #256 . The advantage of no backclear and the ppa for karmic your can find here. (#291..#296).

My intention for an own ppa is described at its best at #264 and by myself at #413 #414 #421 #436.

You will see it's all in the records...

@Daniel: It was no offense writing that you are not forced to use fglrx and no backfill. You and anyone can give the free driver a chance. I did this yesterday with a brand new X 1.8 directly from the latest sources and the latest xf86-video-ati, ati-dri, mesa and so on directly from the git. Then I built Compiz 0.86somewhat from the git and it works mostly. Disadvantages are: No powermanagement, my 4890 runs at full speed all the time (over 90 Watts more power consumption), several bugs in Compiz effects (finally get a kernel panic), bugs with glx (best shown with glxgears), memory leaks within compiz. Some strange behaviour with false rendering..). I have checked this out with arch and a 2.6.34 patched kernel (new scheduling, powermanagement and so on) just for fun.
I found out by and for myself that the most errors are related primarily to compiz, second in Xorg and the minor part in Catalyst. I've choosen arch, because I'm familiar with arch and I figured out that it has nothing to do with Ubuntu. Today I'll change back to Catalyst and will build a new version of the ppa.