<DIV>I personally boycott ATI for this reason since 5 years. Things doesn't seem to change much... :-(<BR><BR><B><I>Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@kitware.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">You can go there to sign it:<BR><BR>http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/petition.html<BR><BR>To: ATI Technologies Inc.<BR><BR>We are the customers of ATI who use Linux to power our computers. We <BR>will no longer endure ATI™s poor driver support for Linux both in 32-bit <BR>and 64-bit computing. This petition is aimed at the designers at ATI who <BR>for whatever reason choose not to acknowledge our pleas and specifically <BR>at ATI as a company. The signers of this petition will no longer <BR>purchase ATI products until ATI make a workable 3D accelerated 64-bit <BR>driver for Linux and a 32-bit that utilizes the full potential of the <BR>Raedon chips.<BR><BR>The products we include in this are as follows:<BR>1. All desktop Raedon chips up through 9800<BR>2. All mobile Raedon chips up through 9800<BR>3. All X-series chips<BR>4. All TV and Remote Wonders<BR>5. All FireGL
chips<BR><BR>Also in this petition we ask ATI to change their current position on <BR>mobile drivers. With Linux, one of the major challenges to developers is <BR>to make it possible for any machine to run the operating system. To have <BR>every OEM develop their own drivers for each component of their machines <BR>and update them would be preposterous since they don’t even make the <BR>components. NVidia has learned this and has prospered since their <BR>drivers in general work with any and all notebook screens. They believe, <BR>and rightly so that it is the responsibility of the components <BR>manufacturer to create a driver that will work with every other <BR>component. Therefore the drivers that we ask to be created for Linux <BR>must also work for mobile chips.<BR><BR>Specifically, since 64-bit computing is new to the world, we understand <BR>that a rough driver that might not work perfectly is unavoidable. This <BR>being said we need some kind of driver no matter how rough
so that we <BR>can utilize the chip that we have already purchased from you. Your <BR>current 32-bit driver for Linux is so inadequate compared to the one <BR>released for Windows that it performs as slow ones many generations <BR>older. This must be rectified.<BR><BR>In the event that ATI cannot handle the programming of these drivers, we <BR>require all modern ATI chips to be open sourced to the Linux community <BR>so that drivers can be made. This would include all schematics and <BR>technical information pertaining to the video cards produced by ATI.<BR><BR>Again until we see these changes, the signers of this petition cannot <BR>support you by purchasing any more of your products.<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR><BR>The Undersigned<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>This is the private VTK discussion list. <BR>Please keep messages on-topic. Check the FAQ at: <HTTP: vtkfaq cgi-bin public.kitware.com><BR>Follow this link to
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<DIV>Aurélien REGAT-BARREL <BR>My VTK blog : <A href="http://aurelien_regat-barrel.blogspot.com/">http://aurelien_regat-barrel.blogspot.com</A></DIV></DIV><p>
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