Re: [opensuse] ATI

On 11/25/2009 09:18 PM, Rajko M. wrote:
On Wednesday 25 November 2009 02:17:15 Fred A. Miller wrote:


The numskulls at ATI who write drivers should be fired, and simply make ALL
the specs open source!!! The Linux community could have GOOD drivers
written in no time.

You are optimist, or you have one of "can't resist" moments :-)

Probably both. But, I have seen how when the "community" has the code it
needs to
write good drivers, they can do so in good time.

I have one of older ATI chipsets (X200) and I can't use proprietary drivers as
they either don't support those chipsets (newer versions), or don't compile
with new kernel (older versions). The "in no time" version (opensource,radeon)
is buggy and needs workaround to boot computer.

The os version is the best that can be done when you don't have all the
info.
needed to write a good driver(s). ATI/AMD hasn't released the code needed
to write good drivers, so the "community" can't be blamed.

Fred

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