Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Feb 2006 22:15 UTC, submitted by Kombatant
"ATI's R5xx line was first released back in October 2005. The initial launch covered the X1800 and X1300 series, with the X1600 series following suit in November. Last month we saw the release of the new X1900 series too. Now, let me count the months from October to February; it is 5 months, right? Well, believe it or not, that's the number of months the new X1000 series is out in the market without Linux support. If you are unfortunate enough to own such a card, all you have is Matthew Tippett's statement in Phoronix."
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2005-11-14
ATI and Nvidia I highly doubt care much for linux users
. And I'm one of their last proponent ...
Depends on the Linux users. You can bet they care a lot about those Linux users in movie studios ...
NVidia won the bet with its binary drivers for now.
I have used Linux myself and that was 4 years ago and even Nvidia cards wouldnt hardware accelerate anything
That's plain wrong. I use Linux exclusively since 01/2001, and I recall perfectly having a NVidia card with binary accelerated driver at the time.
Granted Nvidia's drivers are better for Linux
No, they are better accelerated than others on Linux, they are not better for Linux. No binary only driver is better for Linux.
ATI and Nvidia have better things to do worrying about pushing more fps and meeting with the DX 10 spec and debating unified shader models than worrying about satisfying their Linux user community
That's not what came out of the latest XGL presentation, and of what RedHat started doing.
But I agree, dont get ATI if you are going to use Linux. Simple
I have to agree. They don't even accelerate video on Linux