Re: New ATI Drivers
"Timothy R. Butler" <[email protected]>
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| Organization | Universal Networks |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 September 2003 07:17 pm, Daniel Cassidy wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 9:09 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > Well, ATI has *finally* released new drivers that support XFree86 4.3.0. > > I was starting to fear they had abandoned GNU/Linux, but perhaps not. I'm > > planning on trying the new drivers ASAP. > > > > You can get them on ati.com. > > I was under the impression that ATI had started releasing specs for their > cards and relying on the community to write drivers According to my contact at ATI, they release all of the 2D specs, but they are clinging on to 3D accelleration information for fear that nVidia might use that information to copy ATI's ideas. Conversely, ATI says on their site that they've released the information to the DRI project, so who knows... At any rate, ATI has been releasing a variant of its Windows proprietary driver for XFree86 for about a year, IIRC. -Tim - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks www.uninet.info ==================== <[email protected]> ==================== | Christian Portal: | Have you not learned great lessons | | www.faithtree.com | from those who braced themselves | | GNU/Linux News: | against you and disputed the | | www.ofb.biz | passage with you? --Walt Whitman | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/YPv2K37Cns9gJ0gRAnydAJ9Ntx70gN/4oGdy6v8JcyrVh29eZACcCrZY c3ElWG0z2fM1crpFlDMw210= =tJve -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.