Martin Spott wrote: > Andy Ross wrote: > > Probably most of you noticed last week that ATI has released a unified > > linux driver package for all of their 8x00/9x00 cards. [...] > > Wohoo, you made it into /. with this article. I would not wonder if this > boosts FlightGear popularity :-)
Yikes. My wife saw this first* and called me in this morning. Good grief. I hadn't planned on using up my 15 minutes of fame so soon, nor for such a silly purpose. * Yes, I have a wife who reads slashdot. Phear me! No wait, this is a post to flightgear-devel. Never mind. :) I was hoping to see some interest in FlightGear in all the responses, but most of it was the standard slashdot nonsense**. Curt will have to tell us if he sees any new mailing list subscriptions. The statistics at http://seneca.me.umn.edu show a little peak over the past few days and about 6000 hits on the slashdot link, but not a whole lot of change. ** Linux vs. Windows (no! FreeDOS!). NVidia vs. ATI (no! Matrox!). More than a few people called me an idiot. More than a few of those hadn't bothered to read the link. Whee. But let it not be said that all was in vain. I just received the following from Terry Makedon at ATI. These guys understood the problem and fixed it withing a day after the slashdot article appeared. It looks like it really was just an honest mistake. Now I feel guilty for the "frothing mess" remark. :) Andy >> Hi there, >> >> Last week we posted a set of unified Linux drivers. These >> drivers were only loading up on "Built by ATI" cards. Through our >> various feedback mechanisms we have determined that there is a large >> community of "Powered by ATI" Linux users that did not benefit from >> our Linux drivers. At this point we are happy to announce an update to >> our Linux driver (ver. 2.5.1) which will work on both "Powered by" and >> "Built by". ATI's driver and software strategy is firmly based on >> responsiveness and we greatly appreciate the feedback our Linux users >> have provided. Please use http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/ for a >> direct feedback line to ATI. >> >> Thanks again for the feedback, >> >> Terry Makedon >> Sr. Product Manager - Software >> ATI Technologies -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
