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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)."

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  1. 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 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...

  2. 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.