[Leaplist] AMD putting out good ATI drivers

[Kyle Gonzales]

Sadly, you will be waiting awhile.  AMD promised this months ago...
and we have seen nothing yet.  At least with Nouveau you have
something to work with now.

On 9/6/07, Ray <ssma at sunstatemartialarts.com> wrote:
>
>  Damien McKenna wrote:
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: patrick
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leaplist] AMD putting out good ATI drivers
>
> Could it be that AMD doesn't want to screw the pooch like nVidia did
> when they wrote the video driver that made Linux kernels vulnerable to
> exploits?
>
>  I thought it was more an attempt to appease the market that wants
> manufacturer-backed open source drivers? Many companies won't touch
> anything unless there's corporate backing, even something as innocuous
> as drivers.
>
>
> Damien McKenna
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>  http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=302
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>  looks like AMD is going one step further, they are going to open up the
> code for all new ATI cards...  this is great news for Linux users.  i may
> have to buy ATI for my next video card when the time comes if things go down
> this path and are working great.
>
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