AMD opens door to ATI Linux drivers
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 07 September 2007 - 10:26 · 17 comments & 6412 views
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#1 Posted by night_stalker_z on 07 Sep 2007 - 11:05
- Sounds good for Linux.
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#2 Posted by SimpleRules on 07 Sep 2007 - 11:13
- Now if they could only fix that annoying Vista bug that has stopped me from updating my drivers, any new drivers fail to recognize my DVI display and so my dual monitor setup is ruined ... they're knowledge base thing says it applies to quite a few of their cards and versions of their drivers above 7.2 (we're on 7.8!
... it says they don't know what causes it and thats it ...
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#4 Posted by AfroTrance on 07 Sep 2007 - 12:11
- Quote -offering better open source driversQuote -Although the drivers are still closed sourceQuote -plans to create the open source drivers
Right...
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#4.1 Posted by Jugalator on 07 Sep 2007 - 12:40
- Well... What it's about is really supporting the open source community with better drivers. That is, what NVIDIA has been doing. Yes, the article is a bit sloppy, and e.g.Quote -AMD revealed its plans to create the open source drivers on Wednesday.
should beQuote -AMD revealed its plans to create the drivers for the open source community on Wednesday.
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#5 Posted by MR_Candyman on 07 Sep 2007 - 12:37
- bloody nice! Glad they're releasing the documentation. That's all that's needed, thanks guys!
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#6 Posted by funnyperson1 on 07 Sep 2007 - 16:24
- Its about damn time.
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#7 Posted by Kreuger on 07 Sep 2007 - 18:50
- This is good for any Linux users with ATI cards. It's about time they wisened up
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#8 Posted by Foub on 07 Sep 2007 - 20:56
- Maybe game makes will follow suit and put out more mainstream games for Linux as more and more people get frustrated with Vista....? After all, its not as if they all have to buy a new system as they would have to if they moved to OSX.
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#9 Posted by +Digix on 07 Sep 2007 - 22:07
- this is good will have to try it in feisty once i get round to installing
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#10 Posted by Croquant on 08 Sep 2007 - 00:53
- All five Linux gamers out there will be happy now.
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#10.1 Posted by PureLegend on 08 Sep 2007 - 07:34
- Y'know, graphics drivers don't necessarily have to be used to power games
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#10.2 Posted by David3k on 08 Sep 2007 - 12:57
- Quote - (PureLegend said @ #10.1)Y'know, graphics drivers don't necessarily have to be used to power games
Yeah, don't forget the other 25 linux users. -
#10.3 Posted by kaiwai on 08 Sep 2007 - 16:34
- Quote - (PureLegend said @ #10.1)Y'know, graphics drivers don't necessarily have to be used to power games
True, and more oftern than than not if you want a laptop with a good amount of memory and hard disk space its almost unavoidable getting one with a graphics card that uses a proprietary driver. It would be nice if Intel released a version which used dedicated memory rather than shared.
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#11 Posted by amroth on 08 Sep 2007 - 02:32
- Well. It's kinda of late now. Many users switched to Nvidia already. I do not know, perhaps they realised something.
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#11.1 Posted by kaiwai on 08 Sep 2007 - 16:31
- Quote - (amroth said @ #11)Well. It's kinda of late now. Many users switched to Nvidia already. I do not know, perhaps they realised something.
For me as a UNIX user the only viable ones on Solaris are Nvidia and Intel; Next time around I'll be going for Intel.
I've seen ATI promise the earth in the past and never actually delivering on it. The day when I actually see ATI deliver, that is when I'll believe their hollow rhetoric.
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#12 Posted by nunjabusiness on 08 Sep 2007 - 23:07
- For the most part, I have had no real problems in trying 5 or 6 different distros and my ATI 850GT-based card.
Since you still can't really run the better games in Linux yet, I don't have much urgency anyway because the standard drivers look terrific for me - desktop and notebook.
I run Virtual Box with 10 different virtual machines - all different OSs. Seven of them are Windows, one PC-BSD and 2 linux distros (Ubuntu and PCLOS). Granted the VMs use a virtual display driver - but they all look great.
That being said - this announcement is incredibly encouraging for the whole linux community as there are A LOT of ATI cards out there that could be used in nice low-cost systems for many people with a newly-usable "free" OS.
I say "Keep 'em coming!"
ATI will now develop fully functional 2D and 3D drivers for Linux. Although the drivers are still closed source, the firm will release documentation that allows third-party developers to build and support their own drivers. The drivers and documentation will be released for ATI's Radeon HT2000 chipset and Radeon X1000 graphics processors and newer lines. AMD revealed its plans to create the open source drivers on Wednesday. The release of the documentation was discussed at the Kernel Summit that took place in Cambridge this week.