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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Anonymous on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @15:58

>AMD has claimed that they will be releasing ATI drivers as opensource [..]

If you're referring to the keynote at the Red Hat Summit, opinions diverge and there was nothing like a promise of any kind, except that AMD's marketing person claimed that AMD is willing to work on better Linux support for their drivers - like AMD/ATI did so often. Only (tabloid) news sites Slashdot and OSNews reported in a "It's coming soon" way, linking as proof to a blog of someone who thinks to have heard a promise of open graphics drivers.

Just to consider: AMD doesn't even care enough to clarify. And then recall again their promise of having to work better with the Linux community. All I'm saying is, don't get your hopes too high with AMD.

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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Jack Ripoff on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @20:45

They'd rather just release their hardware's specs/documentation freely so we stop depending on them and their flawed drivers. Mind you, ATI drivers have never been good (never even MS Windoze's).

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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Stephan Sokolow on Friday 31/Aug/2007, @02:40

You're telling me. I have an old ATI Rage128 card that guarantees a WinXP blue screen (with the newest version of the driver) if you start up aMule but it works like a charm on the reverse-engineered X driver.

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