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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?"
2nd pr0st33Z.
fuck them cunts then nvidia all tha way!
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Maybe he got butt fucked by the bang bus.
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).
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
Reason number 673 why Linux sucks
You idiot. You completely failed the post. Your supposed to threaten to LICK their ass you stupid fucker.
thank god SCO is about to make all this linux
garbage irrelevant
Um, who cares?
I mean seriously. Name one DRI driver that actually works. I've tried DRI for the G400, various ATI cards, and my old Voodoo3. They were all terrible, with rendering errors everywhere at the least, and (far more common) usually resulting in my machine LOCKING UP SOLIDLY. Memory leaks galore.
The DRI drivers are crap, plain and simple. Thank god for NVIDIA's excellent Linux drivers.
/. editors get paid to listen to people bitch about their FREE NEWS site
people, slashdot is free, most of the internet is free, you don't have any room to complain. You get what you pay for.
well, i knew that... (wondering why michael hasn't modded me down yet).
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.
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.
k thx, bye
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice