On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 10:44, Alan Cox wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:27:58AM -0400, Steve Brenneis wrote:
> If there was such a huge demand, ATI and Broadcom would both have
> developed at least binary drivers for Linux. Both steadfastly refuse to
ATI did, Broadcom did
References? If they produced drivers for Linux, it will be news to a lot
of people. It will also make projects like ndiswrapper unnecessary. Are
you sure of this?
> I use the open source Radeon drivers on another system and they
are
> barely functional. I don't think it will be possible for anyone to
They should be pretty solid for the older radeon cards. For the newest ones
and 3D you have to use the ati binary driver right now.
Do you have a link? I know many, many people who will be happy to hear
there is a binary driver for ATI.
> Maybe the HP model is the one to suggest to companies like
nVidia. They
nVidia have reasons for doing things they way they do. Don't expect any
sudden magical change.
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Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis(a)surry.net>