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ATi Finally Delivers LINUX Driver

GTaudiophile

GTaudiophile

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THE LINUX COMMUNIITY gained a strong supporter this week as graphics company ATI finally introduced its unified driver for the open source operating system.
ATI promised that it would work harder on its Linux support since its lack of drivers was the key advantages Nvidia cards had over ATI's in the Linux world. This sure was one of the weakest points of ATI cards. We spoke with one of our new Vienna friends and he said that he would go for ATI card if they had a Linux driver. Now, it seems his wish has come true.

ATI introduced Unified Linux Driver Version 2.4.3 supports Open GL 2.0 and works on RADEON 8500, RADEON 8500LE, ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 8500DV, RADEON 9000 PRO, RADEON 9500 PRO, RADEON 9700 PRO, ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO and FIRE GL family of workstation products.

We should add that the boys at Steinberg, Germany that are now part of ATI's professional workstation division FireGL team played a key role in making this release possible.

These drivers where derived from FireGL X1 drivers since it is important to have a stable Linux drivers because there is such a wide of developers and companies promoting their own versions of the operating system. µ

From The Inquirer.

(Users of Radeon 7500 and below are SOL on this one...)


 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

(Users of Radeon 7500 and below are SOL on this one...)
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Not entirely, the FireGL 7800 has had fully supported Linux drivers since it's initial launch.
The FireGL 7800 is based on the R7500 core.
Outside of IBM's A31P it's not exactly a wide spread board however.
 
Good news. In fact, very good news, at least for me 😉 BTW Radeon 7500 and older ones are supported by XFree86, even DRI works.
 
Yes, but dri won't get you anywhere in games like UT2003 that require s3tc support
these closed source drivers are your only hope

too bad i'm another radeon 7500 user
and ATI ain't coaxing me into upgrading
i'll get me an nvidia card
much better drivers...
 
Originally posted by: Soulkeeper
Rand, if you mean the Fire GL 8700 i'll give it a try
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Nope, I mean the Fire7800 as I initially stated.
Though the FireGL 8700/8800 also have Linux drivers available.... if I recall correctly they were initially released about 1-2 months after the boards were launched.
 
Rand, welp i can't find mention of drivers for that 7800 model
ohh well

i'm gonna mess with the unified driver pack and see if it will do anything for me
 
welp after a few hours of messin around with those, they don't work
ohh well guess ATI failed me and i'm SOL......
 
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