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ATI To Support XFree86 4.3 Soon

Posted by timothy on from the 4.3-is-a-rocker dept.

uninet writes "With ATI's recent offering of its first proprietary GNU/Linux drivers, we were interested to see if a follow-up driver was in store to provide compatibility with XFree86 4.3, which was released earlier this year. To find out what ATI was planning, we contact the Ontario-based company and had a conversation with their Manager of Developer Relations, Michael Smith."

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  1. But X won't support ATI, or NVidia or anything... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    we were interested to see if a follow-up driver was in store to provide compatibility with XFree86 4.3

    But unfortunately, the XFree86 developers won't support hte new drivers for another year...

    Christ, I just upgraded to 4.3. The new 'nv' driver for my Nvidia MX 2 Card causes my monitor to go into suspend mode! The monitor never comes back on, even if I "ctrl-alt-backspace' or switch workspaces with 'ctrl-alt-1', or 'ctrl-alt-2', etc.

    I can still use the keyboard, so I can reboot my computer with 'init 6'; but I am typing without a monitor... typing blind.

    The 'nvidia' driver from NVidia seems to work fine so far. Thank god for a company that produces quality drivers.

    Of all the services I use on Linux, most were buggy a few years ago but seem to work pretty well now. XFree86 is the only product that has ALWAYS had problems...

  2. ATI's change in policy... by geoswan · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Maybe the change in policy is related to changes in management? The founder and President of ATI was involved in some kind of scandal recently.

    Hmm. Google isn't helping today. My vague recollection was allegations of insider trading...

    1. Re:ATI's change in policy... by Papineau · · Score: 4, Interesting

      He (M. Yu) and 3 or 4 other execs plus wives/husbands were charged with insider trading for the sale/gift of a few millions worth of stock mere days before "desastrous" quarterly numbers which sent the stock down in 2001, hence getting more money/larger deductions. The Ontario Securities Commission is investigating the case.

      Can't find a link either in 2 minutes.

  3. Any XFree86 4.3 Support Good by 4of12 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm really glad to hear that ATI will be supporting XFree86 4.3.

    Actually, I'm glad to hear that anyone will be supporting XFree86 4.3.

    • Given the recent Keith Packard comments and flap over the future governance of XFree86 and
    • given that X is the bedrock underlying graphical interface to all kinds of UNIX flavors,
    • given that X development is rapidly moving into more insignificant minor rev levels preceded with ever more dots (X11 6.5.1 - No! Wait! X11 6.6 has been out 2 years and I didn't even notice! We'll be at X12 any day now!),
    it's encouraging that someone with commercial interests finds it important to support XFree86 on their hardware.
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