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ATI Releases New Linux Drivers

Posted by michael on from the tainted-kernel dept.

dinivin writes "Today, ATI has released all new 2D/3D drivers for Linux/XFree86. The drivers will work on any "Built by ATI" Radeon 8500 or higher card (up to the 9700). Unlike the previous drivers from ATI, these support both the XVideo extension and S3TC (making UT2003 playable with these drivers)."

16 of 431 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    What about Tux Racer? It's better than _anything_ on Windows. And it's non-violent, always a big plus. I had 16 guys over for a Tux Racer LAN party last weekend. The racing was awesome, as was all the anal sex.

  2. Bah.. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Spoiled Linux punks.

    Back in my day we had a galvanized metal box with a circuit board dangling in it. We had an old VT100 terminal hooked up, and we were happy!. In fact we were so poor we couldn't afford all the serial lines so we had to get by with just both data lines and the ground, but we were happy! None of that Fancy-Pants hardware control stuff that became popular among the Brylcreme'd University people at the time.

    Did I mention that to get to this VT100 I had to walk 40 miles uphill kneedeep in snow? Both ways?

    bah..

    [/curmudgeon]

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    1. Re:Bah.. by gorilla · · Score: 3, Funny

      A VT100? I had to do with a VT52 clone. No inserts or deletes, so you had to clear the screen and redraw all the time.

    2. Re:Bah.. by eam · · Score: 1, Funny

      You had a VT52? All I had were 8 LEDs and a hexadecimal keypad. ...in the snow.

    3. Re:Bah.. by RDW · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dana Carvey? LUXURY! When I were a lad we had to make do with watching Monty Python on a 3 inch oscilloscope while we paid IBM 6 shillings an hour to let us debug their punch cards for 26 hours a day with a blunt knitting needle underwater in total darkness! And when you tell young people that today, they don't believe you...

    4. Re:Bah.. by RobKow · · Score: 1, Funny

      You had a keypad? All we had was a single nixie digit and some test points!

    5. Re:Bah.. by mangu · · Score: 1, Funny

      You had a nixie? All I had was a single LED, which I read in morse code.

    6. Re:Bah.. by JabberWokky · · Score: 2, Funny
      A LED? You were lucky!! We had to do our programming on an abacus!!! Nearly lost a finger trying to install slackware on that damed thing.....

      An abacus? Hell... *You* were lucky as hell - the other day somebody asked me to help them out with a Windows XP system!!!

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      Evan "Proud owner of a (mostly complete) PDP-11, got started on S100 bus... really *did* program with toggles and LEDs"

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  3. Re:Goodbye Forever, Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    and what are you going to do with that $300 card in linux?

  4. 3DNow! support too by Brian+Stretch · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the release notes:

    NOTE: The OpenGL driver can use AMD 3DNow! enhanced opcodes as well
    and - due to design - does not need a kernel patch for AMD 3DNow!.

    Now that's the kind of thing I like to see.

  5. Nice License Agreement by waldoj · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like how their license agreement on the download page is in a text area in a form. I erased all of the text and wrote "ATI will give me one BILLION dollars," and submitted it. And they accepted it! Thanks to UCITA, that's valid, too. (I think. OTOH, who the hell can figure out UCITA?)

    Ooh, I submitted it again and now they owe me a monkey. Pay up, ATI!

    -Waldo Jaquith

    1. Re:Nice License Agreement by BJH · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think you meant "one beeeeelion dollars". Please, let's try and be accurate.

    2. Re:Nice License Agreement by Spoons · · Score: 3, Funny
      I like how their license agreement on the download page [ati.com] is in a text area in a form. I erased all of the text and wrote "ATI will give me one BILLION dollars," and submitted it. And they accepted it!

      I don't think they'll be out too much..... ATI is a canadian company. 1 Billion canadian is about $1.25 US, right?
    3. Re:Nice License Agreement by tmark · · Score: 3, Funny

      How can you agree to binding another party to do something, by simply agreeing to an agreement of your own writing ?

      If ATI sent back the contents of the form in a confirmation page that acknowledge they were accepting the agreement as set for in the form, it might work.

      As it is, I think the way you will be seeing a monkey is if you start beating your own.

  6. Excellent. by YahoKa · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is excellent news. Now all i need is to find the book on "Installing ATI Drivers under linux."

  7. Re: Butterscotch by CyberKnet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Butterscotch is superior to vanilla when analyzed at a compound level.

    In fact, butterscotch is superior in all aspects. Butterscotch tastes better, due to its ingredients it is healthier. Recent studies show that butterscotch *looks* better too. The only thing that vanilla is better than butterscotch at is hit/miss ratio of the trash can. And that is because butterscotch actually gets eaten; recent surveys indicate that butterscotch pudding is preferred 100% to 0% over vanilla pudding.

    Butterscotch also contains a larger feature set than vanilla. When distilled, butterscotch makes a great, long-lasting chew-candy. When frozen, it makes a fantastic jawbreaker, when heated, it results in a glorious milkshake.

    In conclusion, your must see what is obvious: Butterscotch is Better Because it Begins with a B, and because they don't make Apple pudding. If you weren't so closed minded to new ideas, you would have seen this a long time ago. I hope that this simple explanation corrects your longstanding error in judgement.

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