Re: Thank you ATI! - was ATI driver that supports "Powered by ATI cards is out!

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:37:54PM -0800, Nat Ersoz wrote:
> Thank you ATI.
> 
> I recently ordered a Dell Inspiron Laptop and upgraded the video card
> from the default nVidia card to the ATI Radeon 9000 - a US$130 upgrade. 
> The sole reason for the upgrade was that ATI has been such a faithful
> supporter of the XFree86 project.
> 
> I was very pleased that after installing the RPM released by ATI - which
> was very easy to do - I was able to play "Return to Castle Wolfenstein"
> on my laptop (mission critical app).  Not only did it play smoothly, but
> it played smoothly at 1600x1200 resolution (beautiful).
> 
> Of course Wolfenstein is not why I ordered the laptop - but it sure is
> nice to get all the performance from the machine that I paid money for. 
> And it does perform beautifully!

Nicely stated. I think it wouldn't hurt to send this to ATI somehow.
I used their feedback page (http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/) to
say thanks. I'm sure they got soundly thumped for their previous 
policy, so saying thanks for the new one is only appropriate.

Kurt
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