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.





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