From: MJ Ray [mailto:markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk]
Oh. I just had someone raving at me about the latest ATI cards (currently out around the 250-300 quid mark?) but I don't think even their support is full under free software at the moment.
Their "offical" support is non-free the same as Nvidia and from what I have heard is far worse in both terms of what capabilities they give you and the installer is very rpm focused.
As for what they actually give the free software community so that people can work on to support their products it looks about the same as Nvidia, i.e. not much. and they certainly are giving nothing important away. :(
Adam
Adam Bower adam@Drakken.com wrote:
As for what they actually give the free software community so that people can work on to support their products it looks about the same as Nvidia, i.e. not much. and they certainly are giving nothing important away. :(
You see, let one get away with it and they all want to try :-( A sad day for fixability and stability, to be sure.
At the other end of the graphical scale, I can't make twin run on the console. Can anyone? The machine running it is using gentoo stable, but the version in unstable fails the same way: fails to open the console and quits with no echo of characters.
MJR
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:59:54PM -0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Adam Bower adam@Drakken.com wrote:
As for what they actually give the free software community so that people can work on to support their products it looks about the same as Nvidia, i.e. not much. and they certainly are giving nothing important away. :(
You see, let one get away with it and they all want to try :-( A sad day for fixability and stability, to be sure.
Interestingly I think the first people to release non-free drivers were diamond (?) for the fireGL series of cards, these are now owned by ATI and their driver releases are based on the fireGL drivers. What is absolutely abysmal about this was having about 30 of these cards in a previous job and the drivers not working on anything at all, at least the Nvidia cards worked (depending on your definition of work of course).
At the other end of the graphical scale, I can't make twin run on the console. Can anyone? The machine running it is using gentoo stable, but the version in unstable fails the same way: fails to open the console and quits with no echo of characters.
I just found out what this program does, It looks very fun, time for some experiments :)
Adam
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