Jerry wrote: > > Why would I slander a company who is headquarted in my country without > reason?? > > I have had ATI Rage Pro / ATI Mach Pro / ATI TV Wonder / ATI All-In-One > wonder all have had big problems and when I email support or even called > them I have never reached anybody until two months after I sent my email or > message. > > That is why ATI has fallen against Voodoo and NVIDIA...before ATI was number > one by a long shot and when Voodoo and NVIDIA came in ATI just died cause > they don't support their cards...even when Windows 2000 came on ATI wasn't > about to support it but due to the pressure they finally did it. As in > Linux, ATI products sucks with different version for example Red Hat 7.0 > which wasn't on the market long since ATI drivers didn't work with them but > other video cards no problem...
That's usually a case of having a card that was released card right after the version of XFree that shipped with the distro. Most ATI cards, except brand new ones, are supported by the current XFree. It's not fair to blame ATI for that, there are cases that could be made against almost all PC Part makers if you judge them based on support under linux. ATI at least cooperates with the development, if not actively participating. I think it's not much more than a year that 3Com has been supporting/developing their own linux drivers IIRC, many others are in the same boat. As far as the support goes, that's unfortunate. I've dealt with them 3-4 times, and all came to acceptable resolutions as far as I was concerned...I even talked to a human being once! ;) -- Linux SxS [http://sxs.webhop.net/] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
