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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. What gives? by T-Kir · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just wanna know, what gives?

    Hopefully their website if /. can hammer it enough... that'll teach them to not help us Linux people out, or maybe we'll just have to take our business to nVidia (but then again 'doing' and 'saying' can be two completely different ballgames).

    By the way I have a Radeon 9500 Pro on an XP box, and the Catylist drivers still suck... I have to throttle down the hardware acceleration functions to stop XP going screwy (well, more screwy than usual).

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  2. Re:possible answers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    thank god SCO is about to make all this linux
    garbage irrelevant

  3. Re:This article is all wrong by haa...jesus+christ · · Score: 0, Troll

    well, i knew that... (wondering why michael hasn't modded me down yet).

  4. Re:possible answers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    What are you going to do when ALL hardware companies are on the "WNC" List? I hate to say this, but between Micro$ofts underhanded tactics, their Marketing Power, and SCO's frivolous Lawsuits, I think support for an OS other than a Micro$oft OS is going to start dropping. 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.

  5. we need open architecture graphics cards by 73939133 · · Score: 0, Troll

    All this proprietary driver stuff is nonsense. There is little more reason for a 3D graphics card to have a proprietary architecture and closed source drivers than there is for the entire PC. Graphics hardware has gotten powerful enough that we should be able to afford the slight loss in performance associated with having a standardized, general-purpose architecture in place of all these proprietary cards.

  6. Pleeze mod up by pr0ntab · · Score: 0, Troll

    k thx, bye

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