Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 21st Sep 2006 08:54 UTC, submitted by brandon
ATI has released the 8.29.6 version of its proprietary Linux drivers, with the announcement that the 9000, 9100, and 9200 IGP and Mobility Radeon chipsets are no longer supported by the new version. Radeon 8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, and 9250 devices are also dropped from support. Thankfully, these models are supported in 2D/3D mode by the open source DRI driver.
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RE: Current Cards Specs being released...unlikely. ?
by Morin on Thu 21st Sep 2006 21:21
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RE[2]: Current Cards Specs being released...unlikely. ?
by hackus on Thu 21st Sep 2006 22:08
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I say colony only due to the fact that as trading partners your laws are almost identical to ours, and are changed to fit our trading laws.
Especially when it comes to this intellectual property crapola of patents and copyrights.
Europeans don't even have the balls to admit it.
(i.e. They don't have software patents, but the issue them anyway, even though the population doesn't want them.)
Just to make the Empire of the USA happy.
So, in affect economically, yes you are a colony of ours.
Be a nice European colony too and institute "Software Patents for 1000 years.", or we just might do some "regime" changes.
:-)
-Hack
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The whole proprietary driver crapola we have to put up with, especially with the current cards being decommished prevents the specs from being published.
More than likely due to the fact ATI probably stole IP in those cards, and doesn't want anyone to know about it.
In case your wondering why Video card producers do not release specs, this is probably the biggest reason.
Nvidia and ATI probably steal like thieves amongst themselves, and they do not want the other to know about it. (Purchasing each others cards and secretly analyzing how they work behind closed doors.)
I mean, what better way to build a better card than to purchase one of your competitors and reverse engineer how it works. This goes on all the time in the electronics industry.
The law in the USA and its various colonies such as Europe, Australia ironically prevents prosecution of this kind of law by being recursively rediculous and preposterous:
1) You cannot reverse engineer Hardware to figure out how it works and use that to build a product.
2) You do it anyway.
3) Your competitor reverse engineers it and finds out that you did it.
4) Competitor can't do a thing about it, because he broke the law in finding out that you broke the law copying his product.
C? Ridiculous and just the sort of laws created by Lawyers to increase litigation, and stop innovation. (i.e. DMCA act and its children of waste and destruction.)
In any case they have protection of the law in that if someone should find out, they can't use the information in court because it is a violation of IP law in the first place to do industrial espionage.
So it is a neat little game, that produces crappy products and crappy driver software.
Our only hope is the Open Graphics project.
-Hack