5/26 I seem to recall that ATI was going to open-source it's drivers
does anyone know if the ATI drivers for Linux still suck?
\_ Do the drivers suck or are they just binary only?
\_ Last I checked (~6 months), they didn't support rotation, and I
couldn't find any indication that they planned to do so. That's
the only thing I really care about, so I can't say if they suck
in other ways.
\_ I tried this last week. My company purchased a Dell Optiplex
755n (without windows) with an recall that ATI was going to open-source it's drivers
does anyone know if the ATI drivers for Linux still suck?
\_ Do the drivers suck or are they just binary only?
\_ Last I checked (~6 months), they didn't support rotation, and I
couldn't find any indication that they planned to do so. That's
the only thing I really care about, so I can't say if they suck
in other ways.
\_ I tried this last week. My company purchased a Dell Optiplex
755n (without windows) with an ATI somethingorother card. I
tried the http://X.org radeon and radeonhd drivers. No luck. I tried
ATI's binary drivers and found they resulted in a machine that
had to be reinstalled (crashed on starting X, and would no longer
boot). I filed a bug with ATI, and was told that they are
providing Linux drivers on a "best effort" basis (ie, "it doesn't
work? too bad -- we don't care."). After screwing around with
this for a couple of days, I replaced it with an Nvidia card,
downloaded Nvidia's binary Linux drivers, and had things working
in minutes. ATI's commitment to open source so far consists of
a press release. --alawrenc
\_ Wow, that's too bad. Thanks for the info. I wonder how many
nvidia cards go into desktop linux boxes.
\_ I always use Nvidia for this reason. -op
\_ I love how "best effort" really means "least effort." |
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