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AMD To Open ATI Specs

Posted by kdawson on from the just-what-was-asked dept.

Several readers tipped us the followup of yesterday's AMD/ATI news, the new development hinted at by Phoronix: AMD has announced they are releasing the specs for all new Radeon chipsets, and will be working with the open source community to develop a fully functional 2D and 3D graphics driver. An anonymous reader opines: "AMD appears to be following in Intel's footsteps with upcoming releases. If AMD is successful NVidia will have real competition in the GNU/Linux gaming arena. While past support by ATI was unsatisfactory the new AMD buyout appears to be having some effect."

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  1. Talk is cheap... by chill · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since this was just an announcement and nothing concrete has been released yet, the "Nothing for you to see here, please move along" was very appropriate. Bravo Slashcode!

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  2. GNU/Linux gaming arena by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wasn't aware of one that existed.. Interesting. Until EA or Sony code for Linux, the "gaming arena" is all "one offs" and "happened to code for".
    There are probably more movies available on Beta than games available for Linux (I'm not talking xbill and xpilot).

  3. and in other news by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 1, Troll

    People with ATI / AMD video cards are reporting that they can not use DRM video and HD-DVD or BLUE RAY disk in vista any more. They are also reporting DRM and errors and DX 10 games are not working.

    M$ may try to pull something like that.

    1. Re:and in other news by ajs318 · · Score: 0, Troll

      If you're going to theorise about things MS might do, imagine a computer security researcher and open-source migration strategist working out a deal with a medium-to-large-sized enterprise that will save them a few million a year in Windows and Office licences. Now suppose that this deal is celebrated with a party in town, and booze is flowing.

      Suppose further that our security researcher happens to get caught short and has to relieve himself in an alleyway, and is unlucky enough to get hauled in. Bam, he just got his name on the Sex Offenders Register. Double bam, someone made an anonymous phone call to FAST and his computer equipment is being carted off down the local nick for investigation.

      What's anyone who isn't intimately acquainted with the story going to think? Name on the SOR and computer equipment seized?

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  4. A rumour about a rumour... by flyingfsck · · Score: 1, Troll

    There really isn't any substance behind this rumour, only another rumour. Anyhoo, I hope it pans out since high end graphics is used a lot in the field I'm in and this will make Linux deployment much easier and possibly cheaper.

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  5. AMD's Open-Source support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    AMD's record for releasing documentation to open-source is was the one positive I had clung to when they took over ATI -- as virtually every successful Canadian company is being sold to some other international interest or other like we are having some kind of bloody giant fire-sale up here. I almost can't believe things have actually worked out in the direction I had hoped! (i.e. ATI becoming more open, rather than AMD becoming less...).

  6. Re:Linux gaming arena? by ceeam · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who the fuck says anything about gaming you fucking imbecile drooling idiot?!?!

  7. Re:well let's start then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There always seems to be one comment like yours that gets modded up on a story like this -- what exactly is your agenda? Why are you making accusations when barely enough time has passed to read the news?

    Obviously, those who want to do the work WILL do the work, if provided with the right tools for the job. So what could your agenda be? I have a feeling you're bitter about something.

    There's nothing wrong with cheerleading, but you sound more like an army sargeant.

  8. Do you want to know the REAL reason for this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The thing is that PC as a gaming platform is dead. So the ATI needs some over-enthusiastic OSS hippies to do their driver auditing for XBOX 360 and the next gen.

    There is a "market" for desktop games alright. But once WOW et al have been ported to the new network-capable consoles, there really won't be much left to look at.