Re: CPU recommendations *ATI drivers for XFree86 4.3* *avoid Intel-Shite*

[Haralambos Geortgilakis <haralambos@ihug.co.nz>]

Hi all & Alvin,

who typed....

<snip>

> On Sat, 3 May 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
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>  
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> > On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 04:44:08AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 05:46:36AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > >      
> > >
> > > > Yes, it's a binary driver, and I'm not happy about that, but I
> > > > can live with it...
> > > >        
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> all video drivers seem to suffer the same fate
> 	- nvidia gforce/quadro4, ati firegl-2, etc seem to not 
> 	run on latest greatest gcc/xfree-4.3  since those *.o they provide
> 	is for prior versions
>
> just depends on which distro and which version of x11 and which kernel
> and which gcc
> 	- need for the graphics drivers folks to release *.c so we
> 	can compile/link it properly .. otherwise those video cards
> 	are useless at least, its latest/greatest features cant be used
>
> c ya
> alvin
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Actually, there are ATI binary drivers for XFree86 4.3, just here....

http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/body_download_ati.html#8x00

Search the forums here, for Linux install tips, with ATI, scroll down a 
wee ways....

http://www.rage3d.com/board/

They are nice too, I am running some now, in Xandros 1.0.

*HTH* & *BFN*

H :-)


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