ATI IS here in Cyprus to outline its recently announced X700 and Catalyst drivers.
Terry Makedon, a senior product manager, largely talked about those, but he did say the firm is readying a major push in the next few weeks to outline its plans for Linux driver support. He said that ATI has three main goals for Linux. He said that ATI supports Linux which represents around four per cent of the market, and that the firm’s Linux efforts are proportional to the market.
He said that ATI had rebuilt its Linux driver team with a lot of new developers. He said ATI will improve its test process including automated test methodologies, lots of new ways of testing more efficiently. He said ATI’s priority was to make PCIe Linux drivers ready as well as provide support for AMD64.
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Terry Makedon, a senior product manager, largely talked about those, but he did say the firm is readying a major push in the next few weeks to outline its plans for Linux driver support. He said that ATI has three main goals for Linux. He said that ATI supports Linux which represents around four per cent of the market, and that the firm’s Linux efforts are proportional to the market.
He said that ATI had rebuilt its Linux driver team with a lot of new developers. He said ATI will improve its test process including automated test methodologies, lots of new ways of testing more efficiently. He said ATI’s priority was to make PCIe Linux drivers ready as well as provide support for AMD64.
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nVidia has been excellent with thier support of Linux, and ATI has been sort of halfway there up to now. Some cards they supporeted well, and others not well (or much at all!). This has caused problems with new people trying Linux when they run into extra work or problems with their ATI cards.
nvidia was always the best when it comes to linux, accept nothing more until ATI gets their act together.
Still, if they even get it so that they install then it will be a huge improvement!
then i'm certainly buying a X800 XT
Closed source... at least the key components are; that is why the community haven't been able to build their own drivers.
nVidias drivers are 10x what ATi could ever pull out of their ass, just look at their "new" control panel, what a load of crap.
No im not an nVidia fanboy, im on a 9800XT, but my next card will be an nVidia.
SVT
I emailed Nvidia's Linux support days ago about OpenGL overlay not working with xorg X11 6.8.x (I'm on a Quadro FX3000G), but they didn't even answer my mail. That said, I'm not only using a big Quadro, I'm also registred Nvidia developer.
I think there's always room for improvement, it's just that ATI has much more free space... ;-)
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