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GrayFox
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16 May 2007, 4:37am

ATI opensourcing graphics drivers

ATI is planing to opensource there graphics drivers.

Hopefully they will chose a good license and they will find there way into the kernel.

I personally will no longer have any plans to buy nvidia cards..... unless they were to open source there drivers as well.

Nvidia's close sourced drivers aren't updated nearly enough. And now that ati has open source drivers expect there performance and features to increase VERY quickly.


The future looks good for linux (Primary ubuntu and debian) as well as the vendors supporting it (Dell,amd/ati,intel).

Despite Microsofts constant fud campaigns.
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16 May 2007, 4:41am
It seems to me that ATi's drivers have been trailing nVidia's for as long as I can remember on *NIX. Seems like a desperation maneuver, no matter how beneficial the result.
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16 May 2007, 4:52am
Quoting Thrax
It seems to me that ATi's drivers have been trailing nVidia's for as long as I can remember on *NIX. Seems like a desperation maneuver, no matter how beneficial the result.
Its the best solution to the problem and it frees up programmers to work on the windows drivers. (Something NVIDIA should really be doing)
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16 May 2007, 5:19am
It could be the best solution, or another path to a mess... It is another way for ATI to say we are way to lazy to do it ourselves...

I will say ATI has a better foot on Drivers in the past 7 months...
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GrayFox
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16 May 2007, 5:29am
Quoting Sledgehammer70
It could be the best solution, or another path to a mess...
The only way I can see this getting messy is if they pick a bad license for there drivers.
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septimus
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16 May 2007, 6:08am
Don't hold your breath guys... AMD will just pull an nVidia and release drivers that consists of some "open source" code and some precompiled binary blobs. If either AMD or nVidia would open up their drivers the world would see just how much they have been violating each others patents
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GrayFox
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16 May 2007, 6:17am
Quoting septimus
Don't hold your breath guys... AMD will just pull an nVidia and release drivers that consists of some "open source" code and some precompiled binary blobs. If either AMD or nVidia would open up their drivers the world would see just how much they have been violating each others patents
They already do that. (Hence why you have to compile the kernel module after installing the proprietary binary blob).

Im sure there taking a path similar to intel's
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septimus
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16 May 2007, 6:38am
Quoting GrayFox
They already do that. (Hence why you have to compile the kernel module after installing the proprietary binary blob).

Im sure there taking a path similar to intel's did.
Somehow, intel is not worried about intellectual property and patents which is awesome

Cheers to AMD for promising to open source their driver codebase, a huge undertaking for sure...
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16 May 2007, 3:12pm
Open source Infrastructure ftw.
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24 May 2007, 8:41am
This probably wont happen (although most are living in hope). ATi promised this more times than you can count on a hand... and as you can tell nothing ever came of that. Lets just hope this came from AMDs department and not what is left of ATi...
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GrayFox
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26 May 2007, 4:16am
Quoting Enverex
This probably wont happen (although most are living in hope). ATi promised this more times than you can count on a hand... and as you can tell nothing ever came of that. Lets just hope this came from AMDs department and not what is left of ATi...
Im pretty sure ati never promised anything but better linux drivers. (NOT open source)... they didn't really deliver.
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26 May 2007, 11:27am
Ah, what I'd been hearing was people saying they'd been claiming that. Ah well.

This makes me laugh though: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=611&num=6

On that same site you can find benchmarks of some games which show that the nVidia GeForce 6600 completely outpaces the ATi Radeon X1950XT. Kinda puts the ATi drivers in perspective.
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GrayFox
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26 May 2007, 6:54pm
Quoting Enverex
Ah, what I'd been hearing was people saying they'd been claiming that. Ah well.

This makes me laugh though: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=611&num=6

On that same site you can find benchmarks of some games which show that the nVidia GeForce 6600 completely outpaces the ATi Radeon X1950XT. Kinda puts the ATi drivers in perspective.

Any Linux user already knows this.
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26 May 2007, 6:59pm
Oh most know they are bad, it's just different to see them all lined up in a row to see how poor they are, kinda puts it in a different (read: worse) perspective.
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