On Die, 2003-04-01 at 13:33, Hanno B�ck wrote: > > As you may know, ATI releases only binary-drivers for their radeon > 9500/9700 cards. > They still did not release drivers for xfree 4.3.0. > > Now, I'm quite angry about their behaviour not caring about linux-users. > Does anyone know if and when they plan to release up-to-date drivers? > > I think this situation is not acceptable and I think I will set up a > webpage with a petition to ati forcing them to either properly support > their linux-drivers and provide updates or (even better) provide specs > so open source-drivers can be made. > What do you think about this?
I think you should be very careful not to really piss them off. There is a free driver (with lots of contributions of code, docs, etc. by ATI) which supports 2D on the newer chips and 3D on the 'older' ones (some of which still perform not too bad), so I assume this is about 3D. I have yet to see any proof that ATI wouldn't provide docs for that to a group of people who are able and willing to do the job. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
