News ATI drivers official AMD confirmation

Adam Williamson awilliamson at mandriva.com
Sat Sep 8 00:36:41 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 00:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2007, Otto Solares wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:13:05PM -0700, Hal V. Engel wrote:
> >> AMD officially confirms open source intent.  See
> >>
> >> http://www.linux.com/feature/119049
> >
> >Just wondering what all this means for us poor R100/R200 users
> >when our open source driver performs 1/2 [1] as the now discontinued
> >(for r100/r200) proprietary driver and 1/4 as other not to be
> >named OS ;)
> 
> Basically it means they expect us all to go out and buy the latest whizbang 
> cards.  Any cards we now own are looking for first class paddles at the Shit 
> Creek Store, and will be till hell freezes over.

Well, now you've gone and exploded my poor imagination. Trying to
envision a frozen over shit creek in hell can do that to ya. :)
-- 
adamw




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