I’ve have struggled through driver hell trying to get Beryl to work with my graphics card an ATI Mobility 9600, only to be rebuffed, defeated, and vowing never to buy an ATI product as long as I live.
If I had a desktop, I would have been on Newegg ordering a replacement weeks ago, but unfortunately, constrained with laptop hardware (where ATI has the dominant marketshare), I am left cursing ATI’s dismal driver support (and I hear from Jeff it’s even a problem with their Window’s drivers, which is even more unbelievable).
Support your damn products — it is irresponsible and inexcusable.
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Well, good news for me. ATI released their Catalyst 7.3 driver last week, and I tried it out this weekend, and it seems to play nicely with my new computer and my beloved monitor! And, their tech support people sent me a follow-up this morning, asking me to try 7.3 to see if it fixed it. Woo!
Now for the fun task of moving to a new computer…
No such love on the linux side, and I doubt any progress will be made any time soon. The community is trying to reverse engineer their own drivers, but the likelihood of that supporting a wide array of hardware any time soon is slim.
I’m looking forward to building a new computer this summer… my only solace is that I can get use an nVidia chipset.
Woo, post resurrection!
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3108 (didn’t read it…)
While its a step in the right direction, my take on it is: I’ll believe it when I see it, and competition is a good thing.
If ATI get their act together, the pressure for nvidia to follow suit will be enormous.