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Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers

Posted by kdawson on from the please-sir-can-i-have-a-little-more dept.

Open Source IT writes "According to a presentation at Ubuntu Live 2007, Dell is working on getting better ATI drivers for Linux for use in its Linux offerings. While it is not known whether the end product will end up as open source, with big businesses like Google and Dell now behind the push for better Linux graphics drivers, hopefully ATI will make the smart business decision and give customers what they want."

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  1. Re:Nothing for you to see here... by shaitand · · Score: 5, Funny

    'Has there ever been anything to see in ATI's Linux drivers?'

    Or more to the point, has there ever been anything you could see WITH ATI's Linux drivers?

  2. Re:Nothing for you to see here... by TruePoindexter · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sure there is....oh wait we're talking about display drivers. Yeah, no there is nothing to see. Or more to the point you can't see anything. Screens were always overrated anyway - ATI wants us to move back to binary displays.

  3. Joy in getting what you want. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    "While it is not known whether the end product will end up as open source, with big businesses like Google and Dell now behind the push for better Linux graphics drivers, hopefully ATI will make the smart business decision and give customers what they want.""

    Free blow jobs?

  4. Holy gramatical error batman! by CaptainPatent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since ATI has been swallowed by AMD, ATI has gone downhil[l]. [With p]aper launches of products and m[i]ssed sh[i]p dates[,] [w]ha[t] makes you thin[k] ATI will make an effort or do the[y] even have the means to do {do - delete} it? I was originally going to make a statement saying that ATI hasn't been too terrible lately, but after all of the corrections I had to make just to comprehend your post, you instead left me wondering if you're missing a finger.
    --
    Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
    1. Re:Holy gramatical error batman! by 8-bitDesigner · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bah, he's probably just on an iPhone!

    2. Re:Holy gramatical error batman! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Since ATI has been swallowed by AMD, ATI has gone downhil[l]. [With p]aper launches of products and m[i]ssed sh[i]p dates[,] [w]ha[t] makes you thin[k] ATI will make an effort or do the[y] even have the means to do {do - delete} it? I was originally going to make a statement saying that ATI hasn't been too terrible lately, but after all of the corrections I had to make just to comprehend your post, you instead left me wondering if you're missing a finger. I' osting on a iPhne, y isenstve cld!
  5. Re:It's hard to write drivers for a crap OS. by Anarke_Incarnate · · Score: 5, Funny

    So that explains VISTA problems, but we're talking Gnu/Linux here....

  6. Shall I help out here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Since ATI has been swallowed by AMD, ATI has gone downhil[l]. [With p]aper launches of products and m[i]ssed sh[i]p dates[,] [w]ha[t] makes you thin[k] ATI will make an effort or do the[y] even have the means to do {do - delete} it? I was originally going to make a statement saying that ATI hasn't been too terrible lately, but after all of the corrections I had to make just to comprehend your post, you instead left me wondering if you're missing a finger. I can give him the finger for you, if you want.

    --Mr. Helper
  7. Re:AMD *will* soon deliver open graphics drivers by derrida · · Score: 3, Funny

    As Henri Richard announced (some time ago...).

    --
    nemesis. Home of an experimental fe code.
  8. Good one! by PingXao · · Score: 3, Funny

    15 years ago some of us were asking ATI for OS/2 Warp drivers. *rim shot*

    It would be poetic justice if ATI put Dell on hold for an hour every time they called to check in on those drivers. Then transferred them to 3 different parties before cutting them off.

    In fact, if ATI promises to do that I will forgive them for the OS/2 lies and bogus promises they made.