Good news for ATi users - better driver support promised

[Roxoff]

I've not bought an ATI video card since the early nineties, I bought 3DFX when AGP first appeared, then it's been NVidia all the way - the linux support has always been excellent.

If ATI catch up, and release their drivers to the open source world to be improved by everyone, then my next video card update will use ATI chipsets. I dont care who manufactures my hardware, but I will use my limited resouces sponsor those who support Linux, and in preference those who support open source.

[Vergil83]

I don't like to post stories directly from /. but

"Ending off the X Developer Summit this year, Matthew Tippett handed off ATI's GPU specifications to David Airlie on a CD. However, the specifications are also now available on the X.org site. Right now there is the RV630 Register Reference Guide and M56 Register Reference Guide. Expect more documentation (and 3D specifications) to arrive shortly. The new open-source R500/600 driver will be released early next week."

AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs

[Oxygen]

Wow! They're doing it!

That said, I agree with Roxoff. I'm not a programmer so source code means nothing to me, I'd rather have a company officially support their product for Linux than sombody else make a rough representation from the specs.

[khinch]

That's excellent news! I truly hope we see some healthy competition between nVidia and AMD/ATi in the Linux world now.