On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 06:02:14 -0800, Tim Shoppa wrote:

Linux doesn't suffer nearly so much
from this stupidity (but it does, to some extent, as many manufacturers
distribute binary-only drivers for Linux. That's not the fault of
Linux, although many regard binary-only drivers as pure evil.)

I'll take them. Either that, or have REALLY good, simple, step-by-step,
never-fail instructions. Since that's usually too difficult for them to
get right, hell, just compile me the binaries.

You can't tell me it would take all THAT much manpower for a company
like ATI to compile their drivers for the half-dozen or so leading Linux
distributions. If they want their cards to be purchased by Linux users,
they should be doing it.