On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:17:13 -0500 Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in > > general and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish > > cards, they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the > > open-source radeon driver (which works well). For their high-end > > cards, they refuse to provide specs (so no open-source driver), > > I've been a long-time advocate for AMD/ATI, largely due to their > making available the specs. Do you have references or citations to > support the claim that specs are not available for some/high-end > cards? Ok, now that I did some research --- you're right, I stand corrected --- they did publish the specs for the high-end models 6 months ago, back in October 2013. Hopefully by now the radeon devs implemented them. :-) But what I remember is that this was not the case in recent years (until last October, that is). Some years back when ATI announced the release of the specs, there was a lot of hype about ATI supporting the Linux community etc., but the actual specs were released only for low-end, obsolete cards. This was very disappointing, and that situation was perpetuated for a while. For example, the Radeon HD family of cards was not supported by the open-source driver for quite a while, and there were a lot of problems with the then-experimental radeonhd driver. It was useless, and I had to install the fglrx driver on several Fedora (Core) releases to get 3D support. And it was always a major pain. I admit being out of the loop recently, I wasn't aware that ATI came completely straight last year. :-) Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
