[Leaplist] ATI releases hardware specs

[Kyle Gonzales]

On 9/14/07, Richard F. Ostrow Jr. <kshots at warfaresdl.com> wrote:
> On Thu, September 13, 2007 8:49 pm, Kyle Gonzales wrote:
> > On 9/13/07, patrick <pberry2 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> >> No thanks, nVidia, and I am happy to see some major market pressure come
> >> to bear upon you!
> >
> > NVidia still owns this market for Linux.  Period.
> >
> > I don't buy ATI because right now, their cards are terrible in Linux,
> > and will be for at least the next 12 months.  They have of bad karma
> > from the past couple of years to make up for.
> >
> > Additionally, NVidia has done plenty to make other hardware available
> > in Linux with open source drivers.
>
> Agreed. There has not ever been working 3D support from ATI to this day.
> You may get partially working support... but who wants that? I'd estimate
> that we'd only get working ATI drivers around 6-12 months after ATI open
> sources their drivers... not before then, and only with their newest cards
> (the HD versions). Those with older ATI cards are plain out of luck.
>
> Of course, after this occurs and matures... I'll likely start buying ATI
> cards again. But as mentioned, that will take 12 months to get to the
> infancy stage and probably another 2-3 years before I feel it has matured
> enough for me to buy. It's a good long-term solution from AMD/ATI... but
> ATI has such cruddy support to start from that I don't see people
> immediately jumping ship.

And if the intellectual property environment is such that AMD/ATI can
release driver specs, NVidia will not be far behind.  Knowing the
state of the NVidia driver, if it could be released open source as is,
that would be a huge stake in ATI's heart on Linux.

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