On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Neill Newman wrote:
Also can anyone comment on the current state of play with ATI graphic cards and linux? Some of their cards seem to do all that I want but...
it depends on what ATI graphics cards you are thinking of.. a few years ago ATI refused to release the spec of their cards, and some of them don't work too well.. best to check with the Xfree86.org people
Not true, NVIDIA are the evil empire when it comes to this, ATI are one of the few manufacturers (i think alongside Matrox) who actually encourage development for Linux.
http://www.ati.com/na/pages/resource_centre/dev_rel/linux.html
Tells you the real lowdown, what is a shame is that Nvidia only provide binary modules for their drivers as I prefer there kit no end compared to other manufacturers.
Adam