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Old January 8th 04, 05:05 PM
Bernd Paysan
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chrisv wrote:
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.


I don't know what problems you'll have with ATI cards and Linux (up to now,
I've mainly use nVidia cards, and a Matrox card), but if you go to http:/
www.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html, you'll see that ATI does support Linux,
and does provide proprietary binary drivers on http://mirror.ati.com
support/driver.html. ATI also does provide informations to the Linux
developer community (the DRI project), at least up to the Radeon 9200 (not
the high-end ones - there, only the binary drivers are available). The
binary drivers support only the i386 architecture, i.e. those people who
want a real high-end graphic workstation with an Athlon 64 (or two
Opterons) will not be able to make use of a high-end ATI card. nVidia on
the other hand does support AMD64. Since Radeon 9x00 excel at DirectX 9
benchmarks, while GeForce 5x00 is better at OpenGL benchmarks, it's
probably better for a Linux user to use nVidia cards, anyway.

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