On Friday 22 November 2002 14:24, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Dave Reed wrote: > > >I couldn't find source code - does anyone know if they plan to release > >the source code for their drivers? > > > > > They have no plans to release the source. > > >This may motivate me to replace my Radeon 7500 with a 9700 (now I can > >tell my wife what I want for Christmas :-) > > > Make sure you get an actual "Built by ATI" board. The drivers don't work > with the "Powered by ATI" boards. > > -Thomas Yes, I made certain my Radeon 7500 was "built by ATI" when I bought it. Does anyone know if the open source developers plan to continue developing drivers for the new cards even those these binary drivers will be out there? Is ATI at least still releasing specs for their new cards so drivers can be written (that's the reason I switched from NVidia to ATI - I want to be able to upgrade my machine to the newer Red Hat versions w/o worrying about the driver not working with them). If open source drivers are being written, I can be assured that evenutally I can make that upgrade w/o losing the use of my graphics card. If they're still releasing the specs and people are still writing the drivers, I can live with buying a new card from ATI, but if they've quit releasing their specs or there are no plans for open source drivers, then there's no "moral" reason to buy ATI and I'd look more closely at price, performance, etc. of ATI vs. NVidia. Dave _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
