Re: Radeon driver and OEM cards

Francisco Castanheiro wrote:

>Hello,
>is there any good reason to this? Why is ati leaving owners of ati cards out? 
>My card is build by gigabyte, but the only thing that gigabyte did was 
>assemble the card... it IS an ATI! I don't get the point... 
>I have a radeon9000 pro, and a just want to play ut2003...
>Shouldn't ati follow the nvidia example with the drivers?
>
>Regards.
>
>
>On Friday 22 November 2002 11:53, Alexander Stohr wrote:
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>>No, the unified drivers do only work with
>>"Built by ATI" cards, the FireGL and Mobility.
>>Same state as with the previous R200 drivers.
>>
>>-> for third party boards please use DRI drivers
>>
>>-Alex.
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Francisco,
I think you will find also that Nvidia and the maker of ut2003 made some 
kind of pac that prevents ATI from playing this game too.  Right now it 
will play only on an Nvidia graphics card and that is neither the fault 
of XFree86 group or ATI.  Complain to the maker of the game, a lot of 
folks were upset at that decision!

Also, the third party boards are just that, powered by the ATI chipset, 
but not built by ATI.  There is a difference and ATI has no control over 
the design of others boards, they just supply the chips to the maker. 
 There are several people getting those third party boards because they 
are cheaper, but basically you get what you pay for and you should stick 
with the "built by ATI", rather than the "powered by ATI" right now.

Patrick

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