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I am not sure because I don't know this particular patent.
But, it must be protecting something more specific than vector operations,
because I am sure that patent office was aware of existing...

I agree. In general lawyer's services in the US are too expensive and it applies to patent law but also to many other issues
like medical or labor law suits. It is the characteristic of US legal...

Well, great! Then in court, when Microsoft will have to prove
non-obviousness again, insiders like you can testify for the
defense - nvidia or whoever can possibly get sued.
However, if what...

Maybe not now, but in 2004 it probably did meet this requirement.
I do not know the details of the patent office ruling and specifics of
the patent, however encoding streams using specific GPU...

It is not possible since it does not meet the non-obviousness patentability requirement.

US has to 'first to invent' type of patent system.
As much as this patent might seem binding, in reality,
if the case goes to court, it would be almost impossible to enforce.
Since there are...

Unfortunately Warcraft 3 does not work well with this release.
It does not have have of the textures and I cannot see the menu at the start.
I have X1300 with latest Ati binary driver and kernel...

The memory leaks are amazing. I just valgrinded glxgears
and there are bunch of them in fglrx_dri.so

Don't ATI developers use basic tools?

Hardware
Thinkpad T60, X1300

I experienced overall improvements if compiz is off,
mostly with opengl performance.

What works:
1. suspend (ram, disk) - finally!!!
2. XV
3. OpenGL output in...

This solved the issue for me.
Thanks.

PJ

I have performance boost in glxgears, but no compiz

compiz --replace
compiz (core) - Fatal: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz...