radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

Marko Vojinovic vvmarko at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 22:43:06 UTC 2010


On Monday 01 February 2010 20:46:52 François Cami wrote:
>
> Of course, I use neither IGPs nor the latest cards.

Of course you don't, because the latest ATI cards don't work on F12. There is 
no functional driver, nor open nor closed source.

> > oops, sorry... you *cannot* opt for radeon(hd)
> > driver because ATI did *not* disclose the specs for their HD family of
> > cards.
> 
> They did.

Ok, let me jump through another hoop here. The latest desktop graphics card 
model I can find on the ATI website is called "ATI Radeon HD 5970". They claim 
it to be the fastest graphics card on the planet.

Point me to the specs, pretty please?

I searched all around Xorg website, ATI website, used google... Didn't find 
them.

> They also pay people (Alex Deucher for instance) to develop a free driver.
> See:
> http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=43
> http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=47
> http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=48
> So we get specifications and a free driver.

So where is the driver for the above card?
 
> ATI provides specs and code hand in hand with the Xorg devs.
> NVIDIA provides a binary blob.
> Who's most opensource friendly?

And who supports their own hardware at all? Opensource-ness is immaterial 
here, ATI doesn't have *any* drivers which would work in F12, for their own 
latest&greatest graphics card.

Best, :-)
Marko



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