The Xorg open source driver has always been slower than the proprietary Windows ATI driver, part of the reason Xorg developers keep clamoring for more support from the video card manufacturers. Instead, ATI (and nVIDIA) would rather make a faster proprietary driver for one platform than help the Xorg guys make it work right for all GNU/Linux hardware platforms.Huh well that's interesting then. ioUrbanTerror in ubuntu with maxed settings at XGA res got around 30-40 FPS, when in windows it got 90-110 at the same settings. Same game versions, and pretty much the same testing type enviroments for the game. Maybe it's just the ubuntu guys being screwy again.
Nevertheless, the hardware acceleration support is there...just slower compared to Windows. Personally, I'll take "a tad slower than Windows" than "no acceleration whatsoever" any day.
