[geeks] Interesting ATI/AMD news

[Alex Feinberg]

    Given the incredibly poor (in my view) support that the recent ATI
chips have in Linux (and lack thereof in FreeBSD), especially when
compared to Nvidia, I wonder what this would mean for the FOSS
community.

    Or does this mean, under AMD's pressure, we are likely to see
better Linux drivers for ATI?

    (I've recently dumped a Radeon 9600 for a Geforce 5500 because
of the incredibly poor Linux support for the former, despite the
former likely being a better "bang for the buck"; what particularly
irritated me was how long it took for 64-bit accelerated drivers to
appear from ATI for Linux, compared to Nvidia).

On Thursday, 27 July 2006 at 16:26:45 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> AMD is supposedly making a bid to buy ATI, or at least that's what I've
> been reading lately.
> 
> Interesting because: ATI is nVidia's most direct competitor, and because
> ATI makes chipsets for a lot of Intel's branded motherboards.

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- Alex