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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Jack Ripoff on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @20:49

Opensource or not, their drivers will remain buggy.

Our real hope would be pressuring them to release their docs so we can code our own decent drivers.

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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by ac on Thursday 31/May/2007, @05:23

so now specs are better then code? the opensource driver community could easier write a new driver from scratch than fixing atis maybe-very-soon-opensource-driver?

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Re: ATI / fglrx?
by Jack Ripoff on Thursday 31/May/2007, @05:58

"so now specs are better then code?"
As far as device drivers are concerned, it always has been.

"the opensource driver community could easier write a new driver from scratch than fixing atis maybe-very-soon-opensource-driver?"
Probably. That driver's just so buggy, it's code may be a complete spaghetti mess. I could be wrong about this thou, perhaps it may just be a matter of cleaning the code up.

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