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ATI: *never* again
ATI: *never* again
Posted Jul 3, 2007 8:00 UTC (Tue) by cyperpunks (subscriber, #39406)Parent article: AMD applies make-up to the face of its Linux Control Centre (the Inquirer)
ATI has
* no support for AIGLX
* no support for Xorg X server 1.3
* no support for the R500 ship
* no support for FreeBSD
* no support for OpenSolaris
It's very simple:
I will *never* buy any desktop, laptop or server with ATI graphics chips!
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ATI: works fine on SPARC
Posted Jul 4, 2007 13:36 UTC (Wed) by davecb (subscriber, #1574) [Link]
Odd, my SPARC laptop had an ATI chip and will runOpen Solaris (with a keyboard patch).
--dave
ATI: works fine on SPARC
Posted Jul 4, 2007 13:45 UTC (Wed) by cyperpunks (subscriber, #39406) [Link]
Could you please provide a URL on http://ati.amd.com for that driver?
ATI: works fine on SPARC
Posted Jul 5, 2007 21:25 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
>Odd, my SPARC laptop had an ATI chip and will run Open Solaris (with a keyboard patch).
Of course you can always run graphic cards in 80x25 or SVGA/VESA mode.
Opensolaris might even have the proper GL libraries, but I doubt it suports more than the few things the Linux driver does.