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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. Radeon Mobility performance under DRI is awful. by Netsnipe · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Section "Device"
    Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility M6 [LY]"
    Driver "radeon"
    Option "AGPMode" "4"
    Option "AGPFastWrite"
    Option "EnablePageFlip"
    EndSection
    With the above settings under XFree86 4.3.0-0ds4 (Debian), the 16MB SDRAM card on my IBM Thinkpad R40 Celeron R40 + 256MB RAM can pull a maximum of 260 fps in glxgears.

    Does anyone else think this is just woeful performance? I haven't been able to get those stupid ATI binary modules to load either, so ATI better get off their arses and give the DRI project a hand or play catch up to Nvidia with their closed Linux driver support. If I can't squeeze anymore performance out of my ATI soon, I'll be voting for Nvidia with my wallet for my next desktop upgrade.

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  2. Fricken SCO by fearlessrogue · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First IBM and now ATI? No one is safe!

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    Everything Zen;
    I don't think so!!!
  3. Re:This article is all wrong by haa...jesus+christ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so are many news sites. They make money from advertising (see the banner at the top of the site?) and subscriptions. My argument is something like this - we (the readers) either a) view ads or b)pay a subscription fee to have access to 'news' on slashdot. I would venture to say that part of this payment (be it theoretical or real) should include an additional service, i.e. actual editing and remedial news gathering skills. While I've heard many of the arguments about keeping things unedited and how the community fills in the gaps (the latter is a great strength of this site), moving ahead in this vein (vain?) probably isn't sustainable (if taco et al. want to pay their bills). or maybe i'm just an idiot (begin flinging witty rejoinders).