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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. You've got things out of order by fobbman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Before you post stories to Slashdot and stirring up the masses, why don't you try to contact ATI customer support either through email ? That seems to be much easier, and much more productive, than taking up front page space.

  2. This is an ongoing problem... by wiresquire · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The lack of support by vendors makes it real difficult for people to really have confidence in Linux, and makes them keep that partition with that other OS on it.

    Just over the past month, I've got a digital camera that isn't supported. Actually, I think I nearly fried it trying to get it to work, but that's another story. Then I went looking for a 6 in 1 adapter for it. As I was browsing through the store and on the net, I was thinking to myself "If just *one* of these dang things said it supported Linux, I'd buy it!".

    There's a market for vendors for people who don't want to compile major parts of an operating system like the kernel, X etc.

    Hey vendors, this is a growing market! Come on in, the water's fine!

    --

    So does Anonymous Coward have good karma?

  3. Re:possible answers? by letxa2000 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Maybe in a few years, the ONLY support will be for Windows. Remember, it's a Dog-Eat-Dog World where only the Fittest will survive, And Linux, BSD, Mac OX X, and any other Non MS OS is Dead or Dying.

    That's how it has been for years, mostly. But if you haven't noticed more and more people, companies, and governments are using Linux lately. There is no indication this trend will stop. Hardware companies might be able to ignore Linux for another year or two, but beyond that they do so at their peril.

    Don't worry--more, not fewer, companies will be supporting Linux in the future.

  4. Re:NVidia vs. ATI by josh+crawley · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Speaking as someone who just installed Knoppix and the Nvidia drivers you're full of it.

    Just grab the GLX and Kernel [4363 is latest] tar.gz's. Unpack them, export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=true. go into the Kernel directory, make, go into the GLX directory, make, go into /etc/X11, edit XF86CONFIG-4 [e.g. remove dri, etc.. replace nv with nvidia], add nvidia to your /etc/modules

    now either reboot or isnmod nvidia and launch startx. Boom NVIDIA drivers.

    WOW THAT'S SO SIMPLE I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY ANYONE USES MICROSOFT