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Unless I'm misunderstanding something, ATI basically said |
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"screw you" to anybody with a 92xx series card. ATI's drivers |
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stopped supporting the r2xx chipsets after version 8.28.8, and |
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that version only works up through xorg 7.1. |
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My ATI based card is only 3 years old, and it's useless if I |
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want to do DRI. OTOH, I've got a 7 year old NVidia card that's |
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still supported. The closed source NV drivers have always |
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"just worked" for me, and the ATI close-source drivers have |
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always been hard to get installed and flakey once they were |
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installed. |
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Yes I know there are open-source drivers that are supposed to |
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do DRI for the r2xx chipset, but they've got so many rendering |
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issues they're useless. I just tried again with the |
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open-source drivers. Glxgears runs OK, but on the opening |
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screen of ppracer, none of the menu text is rendered. |
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I swear I'll never buy another ATI chipset again. If AMD |
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doesn't straighten out the mess at ATI, I'll switch back to |
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Intel CPUs as well... |
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Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want to kill |
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at everyone here with a cute |
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visi.com colorful Hydrogen Bomb!! |
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