On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 19:18 -0700, Kurt Wall wrote:
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 07:11:37PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
The ATI middle-finger to its older card holders will probably be looked at as one of the biggest setbacks for Linux's migration to a mainstream desktop alternative for the next several years. Just stop and think for a moment of the sheer number of users that are left without a realistic migration path to an X desktop now. This is especially acute since the new desktops like KDE4, etc. rely on advanced card capabilities....
What on earth could cause ATI to just drop all support for a majority of its cardholders??... I wonder... Ah, screw it, I don't care anymore, I've already made the change to buying NVidia exclusively and my ATI cards will filter their way out of my systems once and for all in the near future ;-)
I was just going to propose that you and Roger give ATI the big middle finger and buy NVIDIA. NVIDIA are still supporting some darn crufty cards with their legacy drivers.
I have always used Nvidia when I have a choice. In the computer in question, it came with an ATI card (FireGL V3300). So I thought I would see how it worked. Can't say I am impressed with support. I guess I will be switching to Nvidia. I wonder how far back Nvidia support goes? I recall a legacy driver that kept support for older cards at some level. Of course, that means that the cards were at least still supported at a level equivalent to when they were purchased. ATI, OTOH, simply dropped their 'older' cards altogether. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org