ATI Petition for Adequate drivers in GNU/Linux
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ATI Petition for Adequate drivers in GNU/Linux
hi,
http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/petition.html
please support us.
cheers
(Edit): i forgot to specify one thing, it is not my petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/petition.html
please support us.
cheers
(Edit): i forgot to specify one thing, it is not my petition
Last edited by coltseaver on Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I thought ATI cards had good support under Linux since its one of the options in API and operating system support. On the website it says
Robust support for Windows® and Linux® environments
http://www.firegl.com/products/fireglx2-256T/index.html
anyone have experience with any of the fireGL cards under linux?
Robust support for Windows® and Linux® environments
http://www.firegl.com/products/fireglx2-256T/index.html
anyone have experience with any of the fireGL cards under linux?
ATI cards do seem to to be the source of more bug reports than nVidia. ATI is not completely insensitive to their problems, however. They did donate a handful of nice cards to the Blender Foundation so we could deal with some of the 'issues'. You can take that for what it's worth.
Disclaimer: I did not get one of the cards since I already had a decent nVidia board.
Disclaimer: I did not get one of the cards since I already had a decent nVidia board.
Worse than ATI's crappy linux drivers is that they have NO support for any other OS, not even for FreeBSD or through sharing of SPECs. While that might be common and forgiveable, I personally have had a whole far too many problems with ATI's Windows drivers. I eventually switched to the DNA drivers which solved most of my problems.
ATI's cards are good, but their drivers leave much to be desired on all platforms. For this reason, and this reason alone, I wish I had bought an NVidia card instead. Nvidia doesn't release it's specs either, but at least they have up to date support for Linux AND FreeBSD. The drivers get better performance in Doom 3 too.
ATI's cards are good, but their drivers leave much to be desired on all platforms. For this reason, and this reason alone, I wish I had bought an NVidia card instead. Nvidia doesn't release it's specs either, but at least they have up to date support for Linux AND FreeBSD. The drivers get better performance in Doom 3 too.
I played Doom3 the other day on my Radeon 9600se that I purchased from CompUSA for about 90 dollars.. And it handled the Pixel 2.0 shaders pretty well in Windows.. I curently use the driver trick to use blender with my graphics card (put the glx driver in the same directory as blender). The only reason to run Doom3 is to see the cool shaders, like the glass warping shader, the light bending steam effect, volumetric gas effects, blood spurts, etc. That little area outside the airlock was pretty cool. I can't imagine how the NVidia card could be any better. I've heard that the NVidia cards have something like a 16-bit or 24-bit Z buffer, my ATI feels like a 32-bit Z buffer..VSTM wrote:ATI's cards are good, but their drivers leave much to be desired on all platforms. For this reason, and this reason alone, I wish I had bought an NVidia card instead. Nvidia doesn't release it's specs either, but at least they have up to date support for Linux AND FreeBSD. The drivers get better performance in Doom 3 too.
The other thing about the ATI's is they are scaleable in design, it seems.. NVidia comes out with a new card that has to have a massive fan on it, and ATI just takes their old design, updates it a bit and replicates the chips across the card, and NVidia has to go back to the drawing board, pull out a new design.. I think ATI has life too easy..
But the lack of drivers would have me cussing at the hardware developers too.. Its really stupid that the card developers are so stingy with simple API's that they should limit access to drivers or even the specs of the card to prevent anyone else from making drivers.. I wonder if they started selling drivers for linux, they would be able to set aside enough funds to develop drivers for linux/bsd.. Makes me wonder if its possible to have a Windows driver API on Linux, to bypass the need altogether.. Unless the drivers are so much inbred with the Windows OS that that can't be done.