Linux-AMD(ATi) Promises Open Source Graphics Drivers

[praka123]

Henri Richard, AMD's VP of sales, has promised to deliver open-source drivers for ATI graphics cards (recently acquired by AMD) at the recent Red Hat Summit. A series of good news for proponents of open-source device drivers. In the last year, Intel, the leading provider of integrated graphics cards, has opened their drivers as well. But ATI and NVidia, the only two players in the market for high-performance discrete graphics cards, have so far released only closed-source drivers for their cards. This has created numerous compatibility, stability, and ethical problems for users of Linux and other open source OSes, and prompted projects like Nouveau to try and reverse-engineer NVidia drivers. Hopefully AMD's decision will put pressure on NVidia to release open-source drivers as well!"source:
*linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/05/13/1659245.shtml

 

[eddie]

I will believe it when I actually see some code coming out...until then it could just be some unreal promises made by "VP of sales".

 

[Harvik780]

Really if this happens then I'll surely go open source with OS for gaming.I hope it promises better gaming.

 

[cynosure]

Does the availability of open source drivers means bye bye to windows??

 

[eddie]

^ No...it just means out-of-the-box 3D acceleration for ATI graphic cards in all the distros. Right now you usually need to download and install binary drivers from ATI.

 

[praka123]

..........and GFX cards choices ends up with Nvidia and ATi.IN linux arena,Nvidia cards got average binary driver support.while ATi's Linux drivers sure sucks.now amd-ati are claiming that they will make better OSS drivers.let's see and then we can believe.