any idea on nVidia/ATI support on X.org on FC3?

[Mark Lane]

On September 23, 2004 09:50 am, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:29:05AM -0600, Mark Lane wrote:
> > On September 23, 2004 04:51 am, Marshall Lewis <marshall at novafoundry.com>
> >
> > > Oh, and ATI still hasn't released x86_64 drivers for linux (at least
> > > last time I looked (early august)... I eventually gave up on them, sold
> > > my card, and bought the nVidia card I have now).
> >
> > Have you signed the Petition. ATI promised us drivers last year and still
> > hasn't delivered them.
> >
> > http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/petition.html
>
> Yeah. I just went back there and signed the second time as a business, as
> we do use Radeon and Linux at work.
>
> > > > I understand that at least Radeon support is improved in latest
> > > > X.org.
> >
> > Yeah maybe but you still can't get 3D from anything over r2xx chipset.
>
> Yeah, the support is pathetic. Closed source, or no, but there are
> chemistry and biology people who absolutely need speedy OpenGL, and this
> video driver business baffles them completely. VMD list archives are full
> of support requests.

Well hopefully this announcement by ATI is not just more vaporware.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18664

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