ATI proprietary linux installer

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jun 20 10:04:47 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 18:45 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Fast forward 5 years from today.  Nvidia drops support for your card,
> from their drivers. And the old drivers do not work on Fedora 15.
> 
> I guess you'll buy a newer card, then. That, of course, is precisely
> why both ATI and Nvidia would drop support for their older cards.

Naturally.  But where that really bites is when you have a computer with
built-in non-replaceable hardware (laptops, some motherboards without
AGP, etc.).  Having to spend >$1000 for the sake of a driver is galling.
That's not just a Linux problem, though.

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 important to the thread.)

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