----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Mays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:39 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] New Nvidia drivers for Linux (4349)
> You may not have read ATI's website on the Linux support issue. They support > Linux/FreeBSD work > but rely on the "X" windowing developers (i.e. XIG, XFree86 teams). I > included the link to the RPM for the Radeon 9700/PRO. The ATI Radeon > 9800/PRO, 9600, 9200 boards were just recently released as of yesterday > (April 2, 2003) so you got 12 weeks before you see XFree86 drivers for them > (maybe sooner?). > http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2003/4632.html > http://www.bebits.com/app/2938 > http://dri.sf.net/ > http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/ > http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/ > http://bytesex.org/xawtv/ > http://www.xig.com/ > http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ > http://pdownload.mii.instacontent.net/ati/drivers/fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.5.1.i5 > 86.rpm > > ~Ken Thanks for the links, but . I talk here about good 3D acceleration, not 2D display . I have a R8500 card since november 2001Drivers 2.5.1 do not work on mandrake 9.1. In 2002, ATI has released drivers in 2002 in april, june, november. I was thinking : sweet, the releases are not very often, but at least they are at regular periods. But since november, they have flatlined. What I see is that 7 days after the release of Mdk 9.1 and RH 9, nvidia have working drivers for XFree 4.3. Those for ATI are still awaited. I can make DRI work with my R8500, but flashy colors give me headaches, and performance is barely higher than for a 7500. Moreover, they do not answer emails, despite their feedback survey, whereas nvidia has a forum where an internal developper actively discuss issues. So what I refer to is : http://www.advogato.org/person/mharris/diary.html?start=5 where you learn that ATI's patches are not added in XFree (not ATI's fault though) http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56 where you learn that 9200+ specs are not given by ATI anymore (this is more problematic). I am unhappy of that situation, because I love my card, picture quality is wonderful. But I'd like to have more feedback/PR from ATI since they made promises. Eric
