Re: new mainboard

John-Paul Stewart wrote:
CptDondo wrote:
Aragorn wrote:

As for videocards, ATI cards traditionally have very poor and unstable
drivers for the Linux kernel, but this /may/ change in the near future, now
that AMD has purchased ATI and has announced to be releasing the ATI
drivers as Open Source to X.Org.

???? When did this happen? Any info on this?

(If the "this" to which you were referring was some other part of the previous message...I can't offer any info.)

I was referring to the Open Source part of the message.... Sorry, I got a bit incoherent in my excitement. :-)

It would be really nice if AMD were to open source the drivers, or at least publish the hardware specs..... I haven't been able to find anything concrete, just a lot of hype.

--Yan
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