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[Jeremy Wilkins <wjeremy@xxxxxxx>]

Ok, this driver is amazing.  All I can say is WOW!  And it takes a LOT
to impress me.

I did have it crash the desktop once while loading virtualbox minimized
and unminimizing it, but that may have been virtualbox that did that
since I think that may have happened with the old driver too.

Everything feels 40% faster, and even glxgears shows a higher fps (I
know that doesn't mean much, but it does correlate).  glxgears doesn't
cause the black blanking effect it did before, and I haven't been able
to reproduce the bug mentioned above.  It appears that freeciv still
suffers from poor redraw, but I haven't tested it on a different
graphics driver to see if the driver is really the cause.  glxgears
shows impressive graphics management where it runs at 30% cpu while
showing in the foreground at 3000+ fps I might add (the old driver
barely made 2200), but idles to 4% when obscured by other windows.
There is a negative side effect to this reduction in that the fps
results goes down, but if a window is obscured, that behaviour is
acceptable to me since the window is not visible anyways and it frees
cpu resources for other processes.

I also required nomodeset on the kernel line before to boot into a
graphical environment without crash.  Now I can remove it without harm.
All in all, I vote to move this driver into Karmic as the main driver
for release.  Of course, more testing is needed to ensure everyone has
as positive a result as I am having.

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