Am Sam, 2002-11-30 um 03.46 schrieb Mike A. Harris: > ...... > Since you've forced me into this discussion now (thanks), I've > had to briefly resubscribe to the list to straighten out a few > things before the conspiracy theorists go wild. Welcome back :-) A very informative post for those of us who are not engaged in device driver developement (but rather in just using Linux or developing business type applications). I didn't watch the thread completely, but there seems to be a missunderstanding between those with detailed knowledge in the domain of video drivers and those with (hopefully detailed) knowledge in other domains (and there are probably some others who write rather carelessly with respect to basic rules of intelligent communication). > First of all, that entire post is totally and completely > clueless, and has no technical content worthy of any more than a > dismissive laugh. That might be true for someone who is familiar with the problem domain of video drivers. The main argument of the article (as I read it beeing not a native english speaker) is a complain about ATI's marketing policy not to clearly and obviously differentiate between its own cards and those build by others using their chips. ATI does not object to their OEM partners marketing strategy to hide that fact at least as much as possible before it is really a "lie". Red Hat would stop someone else to pull their download edition, modify it in some way and then sell it as Red Hat Linux LE, probably printing the "LE" in very small letters. And the authors final advice is: those who are not video card / drivers technical experts or hobbiist for flashing bios chips should either buy definitely the original ATI cards (provided that they are able to identify their purchase without doubt) or avoid ATI build hardware at all, because it is too much work to find a working one among all of those which are named ATI (and a high risk of failing). And there are a lot of other vendors who make it easier for their customers to clearly identify and buy a video card that will work in a Linux system. For those of us who can not afford to spend a lot of time in carefully investigating which kind of ATI an advertisment or online shop is referencing to, that is a solid and fail safe advice. Peter -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
