On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:55 +0300, Serghei Amelian wrote: > On Monday 14 May 2007 10:32:08 George wrote: > > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/13/1659245&from=rss > > > > > > "Henri Richard, AMD's VP of sales, has promised to deliver open-source > > drivers for ATI graphics cards (recently acquired by AMD) at the > > recent Red Hat Summit. A series of good news for proponents of > > open-source device drivers. In the last year, Intel, the leading > > provider of integrated graphics cards, has opened their drivers as > > well. But ATI and NVidia, the only two players in the market for > > high-performance discrete graphics cards, have so far released only > > closed-source drivers for their cards. This has created numerous > > compatibility, stability, and ethical problems for users of Linux and > > other open source OSes, and prompted projects like Nouveau to try and > > reverse-engineer NVidia drivers. Hopefully AMD's decision will put > > pressure on NVidia to release open-source drivers as well!" > > Ar fi super, m-am chinuit sa setez o placa ATI de mi-au iesit ochii (driverul > lor actual nu merge cu kernel > 2.6.19 si nici cu Xorg > 7.1). Cel putin > nVidia reuseste de bine de rau sa tina pasul cu Xorg si kernelul... >
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux samflorin-laptop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l xserver-xorg Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=============================================-=============================================-========================================================================================================== ii xserver-xorg 7.2-0ubuntu11 the X.Org X server [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l xorg-driver-fglrx Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=============================================-=============================================-========================================================================================================== ii xorg-driver-fglrx 8.36.5-1 Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerators Deci merge. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lug.ro/mailman/listinfo/rlug
