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Re: [radeonhd] 4870 - what about the future?
- From: Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:08:02 +0200
- Message-id: <200806031408.03065.Dexter.Filmore@xxxxxx>
Am Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2008 22:01:50 schrieb Tristan Hoffmann:
Right now about everybody agrees that the card to go for with Linux is a
GeForce and I sing that song by heart after buying a Radeon 7200 back then, a
9700, a 9800 Pro and an X800XT and constantly falling for PR lies how ATi
was "dedicated to Linux" (2004) and tons of other lip services with special
thanks to Terry M. or whoever pulled the strings behind him.
Ok, that's fglrx and now it's AMD, but right now I don't see how radeonhd will
be feature complete before... a year perhaps?
When half life 2 works in cedega, let me know. When GL apps don't freeze my
system (like fglrx since 2006) and Xv Overlay and scaling/resizing, video
acceleration for H264 is there, tv out works and I can switch to tty and back
and all works I'll go out and tell people hey, you can have a great video
card on free drivers.
If ATi/AMD started it a year earlier they could have seized a good part of the
cake from NV by today.
</slightlybitter>
Dex
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Bridgman, John wrote:
|>> I'm not sure if that is tho. Means any year at the big round table
|
| it's possible due to budget cuts that the bigheads say "no more $$$ into
| open source from next year on."?
|
| Sure, anything could happen. We just need to keep managing the costs and
| risks carefully.
Of course, AMD will not stop to put money and effort into opensource
drivers if the community shows real interest and people buy an ATI
graphic cards instead of NVidia because of the availability of
opensource drivers.
Since Linux becomes more and more important I would expect NVidia to
start working on opensource drivers, too, instead of AMD stopping to
work on them.
Let's tell people to buy ATI cards instead of NVidia!
Right now about everybody agrees that the card to go for with Linux is a
GeForce and I sing that song by heart after buying a Radeon 7200 back then, a
9700, a 9800 Pro and an X800XT and constantly falling for PR lies how ATi
was "dedicated to Linux" (2004) and tons of other lip services with special
thanks to Terry M. or whoever pulled the strings behind him.
Ok, that's fglrx and now it's AMD, but right now I don't see how radeonhd will
be feature complete before... a year perhaps?
When half life 2 works in cedega, let me know. When GL apps don't freeze my
system (like fglrx since 2006) and Xv Overlay and scaling/resizing, video
acceleration for H264 is there, tv out works and I can switch to tty and back
and all works I'll go out and tell people hey, you can have a great video
card on free drivers.
If ATi/AMD started it a year earlier they could have seized a good part of the
cake from NV by today.
</slightlybitter>
Dex
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