On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 03:12 PM, Andy Ross wrote:
Martin Spott wrote:
> Andy Ross wrote:
> > Probably most of you noticed last week that ATI has released a unified
> > linux driver package for all of their 8x00/9x00 cards. [...]
>
> Wohoo, you made it into /. with this article. I would not wonder if this
> boosts FlightGear popularity :-)
Yikes. My wife saw this first* and called me in this morning. Good
grief. I hadn't planned on using up my 15 minutes of fame so soon,
nor for such a silly purpose.
* Yes, I have a wife who reads slashdot. Phear me! No wait, this is
a post to flightgear-devel. Never mind. :)
I was hoping to see some interest in FlightGear in all the responses,
but most of it was the standard slashdot nonsense**. Curt will have
to tell us if he sees any new mailing list subscriptions. The
statistics at http://seneca.me.umn.edu show a little peak over the
past few days and about 6000 hits on the slashdot link, but not a
whole lot of change.
** Linux vs. Windows (no! FreeDOS!). NVidia vs. ATI (no! Matrox!).
More than a few people called me an idiot. More than a few of
those hadn't bothered to read the link. Whee.
But let it not be said that all was in vain. I just received the
following from Terry Makedon at ATI. These guys understood the
problem and fixed it withing a day after the slashdot article
appeared. It looks like it really was just an honest mistake. Now I
feel guilty for the "frothing mess" remark. :)
Andy
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Last week we posted a set of unified Linux drivers. These
>> drivers were only loading up on "Built by ATI" cards. Through our
>> various feedback mechanisms we have determined that there is a large
>> community of "Powered by ATI" Linux users that did not benefit from
>> our Linux drivers. At this point we are happy to announce an update to
>> our Linux driver (ver. 2.5.1) which will work on both "Powered by" and
>> "Built by". ATI's driver and software strategy is firmly based on
>> responsiveness and we greatly appreciate the feedback our Linux users
>> have provided. Please use http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/ for a
>> direct feedback line to ATI.
>>
>> Thanks again for the feedback,
>>
>> Terry Makedon
>> Sr. Product Manager - Software
>> ATI Technologies
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Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems
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