adrian capdefier

Hello.
I recently found this [1] on the net. I don't know if this is new or not
so let's not have a flame bonanza about it and just ignore the message
if it's not news to you.

In short this is an on-line petition to ATI for better (even decent -
dare I say good?) linux drivers.


http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/petition.html

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daniel

not that i have much faith in an online petition, but i'm so glad to hear so
many people feel the same way. my videocard is nearly 5years old now, cost
$500 when i bought it (all-in-wonder radeon) and the tv view/capture
functions are all being handled by the guys @gatos. i'm sure they're quite
capable, but with instructions like "fiddle with source" i'm afraid ati might
be expecting too much from these guys... if they expect anything at all.

thanks for the link. here's hoping something actually comes of it.

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fire-eyes

I don't mean to urinate on a parade, but ATI seems to be one of those
companies that take votes with money, or lack of. I got rid of mine
after giving up, and got an Nvidia.

While you may want to sign this petition, you may at some point wish to
quit waiting around, and vote with your wallet.


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ciaran mccreesh

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:14:12 -0400 fire-eyes


| > Hello.
| > I recently found this [1] on the net. I don't know if this is new or
| > not so let's not have a flame bonanza about it and just ignore the
| > message if it's not news to you.
|
| I don't mean to urinate on a parade, but ATI seems to be one of those
| companies that take votes with money, or lack of. I got rid of mine
| after giving up, and got an Nvidia.

Hm. so you ditched a company which doesn't really care about Linux for a
company which would be hard pressed to care less about Linux...

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daniel

the thing is. you're completely right. we're expecting a corporation to
develop drivers for a "fringe" operating system. ati (and nvidia for that
matter) has no substantial reason to pour any money into developing drivers
for us since there's not enough...

'course that's what i though until i saw how many people had signed the
pettition. i think it was 17000 or something like that when i signed it...
i guess i can hope that with numbers like that even a profit-driven
corporation would be willing to dump a little more money into linux
support...

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byron pezan

According to this article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18664) ATI
is planning to give their Linux driver more much needed attention.

FYI: I signed the petition a week or so ago when I saw it on LWN.net

byron

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edward a mihalow jr

Sometimes you have to dance with the devil that you know, and as far as
I'm concerned NVIDIA sure has been a better
friend to Linux than has ATI.

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darren kirby

quoth the daniel:

I just signed as number 17565. Not bad for a bunch of linux freaks. Perhaps
they will listen?

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kage

Or get them to release the tech specs to the community
and we could build the drivers for them ?

Company secrets !!!!


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graham murray

kage <error@****inginternet.com> writes:


That is something which I have never understood. These companies are
in business to sell hardware, not software. You would think that it
would be to their advantage to publish the interface specs to allow

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