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ATI's Radeon Linux drivers no longer supported?

Posted by Hemos on from the back-tracking dept.

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?"

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  1. Maybe.... by Graemee · · Score: 5, Funny

    The guy who wrote them got hit by a bus and they didn't find the source code.

    1. Re:Maybe.... by TopShelf · · Score: 4, Funny

      That damn bus is dangerous - always seems to wipe out the one guy who can resolve a sticky situation. How come it never hits the PHB's?

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    2. Re:Maybe.... by hesiod · · Score: 4, Funny

      > How come it never hits the PHB's

      'cuz they're never in the office, or they have good enough parking spaces to hop in their SUVs before going anywhere near a bus.

    3. Re:Maybe.... by slide-rule · · Score: 4, Funny

      That damn bus is dangerous - always seems to wipe out the one guy who can resolve a sticky situation. How come it never hits the PHB's?

      Who exactly do you think drives the bus? ;-)

  2. Re:Is that an official distribution? by blixel · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  3. Re:vendor asshats by mofochickamo · · Score: 5, Funny
    It sucks when a vendor won't consider supporting their products in OSes that don't have massive market share...

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  4. Darl MacBride comments : by borgdows · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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."