People incorrectly assume that AMD drivers suck. They don't.

[PsynoKhi0]

tearing while using vlc

Tear-free + vaapi-xvba? Or xbmc with xvba? SMplayer with gl output?

or seeing flash videos

Ask Adobe for proper support. Oh wait....

(this is a shame, we're in 2012 and we can't see a video on a 2,3 ghz dual core cpu!!!!!)

Yeah, people still can't setup their rig properly, unbelievable.

no bsd support

Ok?

too much lag with vsync enabled

Lag where?

pains when new kernels come out

Dead horse...

[elanthis]

I haven't read a single post in this thread so far, but...

Yeah, people still can't setup their rig properly, unbelievable.

Why in the name of Popeye should anyone have to "setup their rig" to get _anything_ working properly anymore, much less basic media functionality?

[elanthis]

The only "affordable" compliance test end users can try is called piglit... see it here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/piglit/

It's not just the only affordable test, it's the only test at all. There is no official OpenGL compliance test suite, nor any third-party commercial ones that I've ever heard of. That's one of the reasons the GL drivers tend to have so many bugs compared to other video drivers: there's no way to actually find or test for bugs aside from waiting for someone to bitch about them. It's been on Khronos' todo list for years, but apparently it's beyond their capabilities.

Maybe they'll adopt piglit as an official test someday.

[hoohoo]

The only problem I've ever had with AMD video drivers on Linux is a tendency to tearing in video.

[t.s.]

They don't suck.
Just seg faults on my debian box

[bug!]

They don't suck.
Just seg faults on my debian box

If you are running unstable, then it is your fault.

[Gps4l]

Amd ati made me loose all fun on linux.

suse 11.3 hd5750 (1gig)

I recently downloaded ubuntu, and will try again to install the catalist drivers on Linux.

The next graphics card I buy is most likely an nvidia.

I am willing, because I like linux, to over look some things.
But not even be able to use firefox normally....
A freaking web browser, and my quad core at 3.2, with above vid card,
cant even scroll s web-page without horrible lag, after installing catalyst drivers.

On a suported linux distro

Ati(amd) must hate his customers.

On windows although in games all seems fine, only last week some weird error on W7.
updating again to newer catalyst drivers, solved that though...

[Dandel]

They don't suck.
Just seg faults on my debian box

This is why good bug reporters are needed... This tells me absolutely nothing. The only thing I know is your on Debian, and this is useless. The only things I can figure out is the following...

Debian 4.0 ( etch ) or newer.
32 or 64bit os ( also matters )
no updates.

Amd ati made me loose all fun on linux.

suse 11.3 hd5750 (1gig)

I recently downloaded ubuntu, and will try again to install the catalist drivers on Linux.

The next graphics card I buy is most likely an nvidia.

I am willing, because I like linux, to over look some things.
But not even be able to use firefox normally....
A freaking web browser, and my quad core at 3.2, with above vid card,
cant even scroll s web-page without horrible lag, after installing catalyst drivers.

On a suported linux distro

Ati(amd) must hate his customers.

On windows although in games all seems fine, only last week some weird error on W7.
updating again to newer catalyst drivers, solved that though...

I rarely have problems with firefox, and from what i can see... Care to provide some more system information? This does not tell me anything.

[Gps4l]

It was months ago. I hope ati has learned something from it, because I was one of many with these problems.
All having hd 5000 series.

amd phenom II quadcore at 3.2 gig
Hd 5750 1 gig
4 gig of ram
dual boot pc w7 32bit en suse 11.3 64bit

Scrolling reminded me of the old days loading large text documents.
pictures blacked out.

[Dandel]

It was months ago. I hope ati has learned something from it, because I was one of many with these problems.
All having hd 5000 series.

amd phenom II quadcore at 3.2 gig
Hd 5750 1 gig
4 gig of ram
dual boot pc w7 32bit en suse 11.3 64bit

Scrolling reminded me of the old days loading large text documents.
pictures blacked out.

I see... this helps a little bit... however, I have not ran into the same issues you have with firefox ( at least with recent releases ). Although, I use Linux Mint 13. Have you tried with the latest drivers? also, are you certain it was fglrx/catalyst and not the Mesa drivers?