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ATI's Radeon Linux drivers no longer supported?
SuperBug writes "After viewing the previous story on Slashdot about the Radeon 9800 vs GF FX 5900, I checked out ATI's web-site which seems to have been re-designed relatively recently. It seems strikingly similar to nVidia's site regarding the driver selections. I thought "great, ths should be much better to find my drivers now. At least a little simpler." To my surprise. I found this message for Linux Graphics Drivers "Not Supported". Thinking this had to be a mistake, I took a look at the "Discontinued Products" list under the customer care link and lo and behold. Just about every recent card is there. I just wanna know, what gives?"
The guy who wrote them got hit by a bus and they didn't find the source code.
All of their FireGL cards still seem to "be supported", so just fork out the additional $600 or so and grab one of them. :)
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the thought of sco made them curl up in a little ball and hide in a corner.
I write code.
...before someone else does.
CONSPIRACY! I say conspiracy! Microsoft is paying ATI to cut off support for the linux drivers. They secretly made a large cash payment in a bag with a big '$' on it, probably made the drop somewhere in Daily plaza. This is their new strategy -- paying blood-money to other companies to get them to cut off support for our beloved linux. It's world-wide, dammit! Why won't anyone believe me?
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We'll git dat dag-gummed, low-lying varmint, wipe dat grin offen his pie-hole, an' string 'im up fer the bears ta' git 'im!
Com'on, boys! We'll learn 'im good!
It seems strikingly similar to nVidia's site
Yeah, I guess ATI needed to keep up with those cheaters at ATI.
I found the new ATI site to be riddled with optimized gifs and using stylesheets for positioning that stops working if you go "off the rail" with another browser.
but for many people, "drivers that some guy built" just don't cut it
I guess you don't use Linux at all then eh?
What do you mean by "they're being paid for??".... Like they're really getting paid???? Geeezee..... That's better than school...no seriously... I mean, in the classroom you make typos=>you got punished(low mark, bullet in the head, whatever), here(/.) you make typos you got paid.....;oPPPPP
1. No sig. 2. ???? 3. Profit!!!
Will 3dfx's Voodoo2 12MB be able to run Half-Life 2? That's all I'm wondering...
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Maybe a gal wrote them? Would that be ok?
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A 3270 is all you need, maybe a 3279 if you are a graphics professional ... freggin' Win/Mac/Linux lamers and their fancy color graphics and games.
Call me suspicious but ati get the xbox2 contract and then stops with the linux drivers - CONSPIRACY - ;-)
How come every time someone wants to get a lynch mob together the assume the voice of a redneck.
I would think that lynch would have a much wider appeal. Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet I mean COME ON ! Those are classics.
"They have pulled off Linux support at our request.
If they had continued to offer Linux support, we would have sued them for IP infringement about using Linux to develop drivers for the illegal Linux platform."
WOW! That is a great FAQ!
Looks just like the one they put up last Fall!
Oh wait...it is!
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
That is exactly why I bought OSX. ;)
"ATI actively assists qualified 3rd party Linux developers writing software for the majority of ATI products by providing them with development kits and information. We have also made every attempt to provide hardware 2D acceleration for all shipping products and will continue to assist XFree86 developers with their work."
See, now it's just the rantings of a good little slashdrone.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Heh, something interesting, on page 5 of that PDF, they list FreeBSD as a linux distribution.
Does that mean we need to mod this PDF as -1 Troll?
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This is just a myth. Talk to somebody in #XFree86 on irc.freenode.net. I know of at least one person who has access to specs on just about every ATI card under NDA, but he's free to write an Open Source driver. No, the XFree86 drivers suck because, well, in the words of many others (I'm just paraphrasing here), "Some (not all) of the developers are incompetent morons who wouldn't know an mmap() from a direct read() on /dev/mem."
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Would you like to start a ATI hate group together ?
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
You said:
They get paid to select the stuff from the submissions bin that goes on the front page. No, wait -- that's done by a squadron of stealth monkeys. Um, maybe the editors feed the monkeys?
proof, n. A demonstration that a conclusion is implied by certain premises and axioms.
Parent should get points for using the term "irony" in a sentence.
I think that you meant a chicken-AND-the-egg problem. That's question of which came first, the chicken or the egg. I have no clue what a chicken-IN-the egg problem is.
That explains it then. I was going through this "FreeBSD" project's site and I noticed that they have something called a ports collection which makes installing software really easy. I should have known if it was just another linux distro, they probably just copied Gentoo's portage system.
>term used VERY loosely
I've been reading Slashdot for quite some time, and I'm pretty sure that's spelled "losely".
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.