* Patrick (penguin0601@earthlink.net) [021202 19:00]: ->Greetings all, ->Seems like I have seen several here talking about or complaining about ->the new graphics cards that are not "Built by ATI" but only powered by. ->Here is a mail I got from the XFree86 list today. Hope it helps. -> ->Patrick ->----------------------------- ->For those who don't read /., here is a message from ATI on the ->problems with the ATI driver on "Powered by ATI" cards: ->"Terry Makedon (Senior Product Manager, Software for ATI Technologies) ->writes "Last week we posted a set of unified Linux drivers. These ->drivers were only loading up on 'Built by ATI' cards. Through our ->various feedback mechanisms we have determined that there is a large ->community of 'Powered by ATI' Linux users that did not benefit from ->our Linux drivers. At this point we are happy to announce an update to ->our Linux driver (ver. 2.5.1) which will work on both 'Powered by' and ->'Built by.' ATI's driver and software strategy is firmly based on ->responsiveness and we greatly appreciate the feedback our Linux users ->have provided. Please use http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/ for a ->direct feedback line to ATI. Yeah. But it still doesn't support the 7500 which is a fairly recent card. Kinda sucks that the users of a 64M DDR card can't play UT2003 because ATI won't support it and XFree86 does do all that's required to run the game. I switched to ATI because the drivers were suppose to be good and open source. If ATI is just going to release binary drivers then I will most like return to nVidia where ALL their current cards and many older cards are supported by a truely unified driver. /end rant. ;) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.