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. -- Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis@xxxxxxxxx>
