The ATI marketing guy on stage (Henri Richard) at the Red Hat Summit just committed to fixing the ATI problems with open source. To paraphrase “most people are worried about what they will lose…IP, etc…we’re worried about what we can win.” They know it’s a problem and they are committed to fixing it.
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My current laptop is Intel-only. I chose it because of the OSS support.
My current desktop box has an older ATI card (9200). I’m keeping it because of the OSS support, though a better OSS-supported card would be acceptable.
My next desktop box is likely to be with Intel graphics due to the lack of availability of OSS drivers for Xpress200 (which I’m aware is being worked on) and for the X1000 series and the lack of availability of older ATI cards. Oh, and the Intel hardware is adequate for what I want of it… :-)
So, any news about this ? Some of the commenters seem to imply there should have been an announcement of some sort…
All the people who are whining about mediocre ATI support should try running the graphics chipset I have in MY laptop…
It’s an SiS. And it won’t run DRI, period. 3D? Forget even fast 2D.
Linux driver support was the main thing why I selected NVidia over ATI, even though my motherboard was built for ATI cards.(It supports ATI CrossFire.)
I really would have selected ATI, if they had some decent driver support for Linux.
Chris indicated that there was more info coming from ATI. I agree that AMD/ATI opening their drivers is really the only way to appease the majority of Free Software enthusiasts. (I currently only purchase Intel solutions). The question for me is whether the opening of ATI’s drivers would end up being a lot like the original Netscape code dump. i.e. – lots of good stuff in there with a whole lot of holes that would need to be filled by new code because there were unopenable parts. This is really something for Redhat, Mandriva, Linspire. Canonical, etc. to get behind and generate market pressure going.
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Blizzard, does ATI/AMD have a contact email address and/or bugzilla and/or support forum where people who have problems with Linux and ATI chips can converse (with ATI and with each other)? Failing that, what’s Henri Richard’s email address? :-) I have a new HP dc5750 which is built with ATI chips, and it has various troubles with the ATI chips (not just with video), and so far I’ve found ZIP as far as support resources at ATI. They say to talk to my vendor (HP) who says Linux isn’t supported. End of story?
If ATI opensource there graphics drivers my next graphics card will be an ATI.
Funny thing, the official ati drivers for my x800 when run under Debian caused the thing to overheat and lock up my computer. Instead when I ran the xorg drivers, while 3d wasn’t supported, I no longer smelled burning. I now use Ubuntu with the xorg drivers with 3d accelleration configured and it works flawlessly to an extent… (Me thinks the overheating was due to a missing capacitor though…)
Well it’s been almost 3 months since the announcement was made, and it’s amazing how much has changed since then.
Don’t know about you but I’m going to believe everything that AMD tells me from now on wrt to linux.
I tell you, I’m so glad I bought the latest ATI card. Compiz at 2fps is just f*&king brilliant!!!!!!!!
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A marketing guy who keeps his word?
This could set a bad precedent.
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I’m sorry I doubted you AMDTI. AMDTI were telling the truth ( http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/30/0337204 ) when I was slinging mud.