On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > So, perhaps an email to ATI asking them politely to fund someone to do > > this would be a good idea. > > BWAH HAR HAR. Sorry. ATI won't do *a thing* about this since they can't > cash in on some few Linux geeks who decide not to purchase a > manufaturer-supported NVidia card but the cheaper concurrent product - > not worth the effort putting a coder on this. They claim they'd co-op > with the XF projects, but all they do is hand out some specs when you've > been gegging on your knees long enough. Yet on the other hand maybe > we're better of this way since ATI can't even code proper Windoze > drivers and that's with it being their main market! Trust me on this, > I've been bothering them bout ViVo issues with Win for weeks and months > when I purchased that really not cheap 64DDR back then. If you mail them > and say "Would you please code some proper Linux drivers" they'd prolly > copy-and-paste the website statement directly into the reply: "ATI does > not support blah blah" I wonder how few the "few Linux geeks" are. A lot of people are dual booting and are searching for hardware that is properly supported with both M$ and *NIX operating systems. If we DON'T email then they're never going to know are they? However, this argument is probably a bit off-topic and list cluttering, so let's just say you may be right. To add some content to the message which may be of interest to the original poster: there are proprietary, non-free, non-Free drivers available from XiGraphics at (beware the line-wrap!): http://www.xigraphics.com/Pages/Atop/CardIndividualSupportSpec/ATI-IndividualCards/8500-IntroOffer.html Note that they have different drivers with different functionality and this is the Platinum top-o'-the-line for $129. You may be able to find a more acceptably priced (for you) version if you look around the DX and WX options -Oisin
