ATI sucks

isnogood · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 96

Sent an email to ati to find out if they ever will put out a 64 bit driver or what.

Answer:

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The Mobility drivers supplied with a given laptop, notebook or third party video card, have been specially modified to work in conjunction with the flat panel display and any other graphics or video options installed in that specific computer. As a result of these modifications, ATI Technical Support is unable to make a "generic" Rage Mobility driver available for download. Please review the information listed below for these drivers.

You MUST use the drivers supplied with your laptop, notebook computer, or third party video card, or obtain a driver update from the manufacturer of your laptop, notebook computer, or third party video card. For more information, please refer to:

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Please ensure that you have installed the latest display drivers for your ATI Mobility product from the manufacturer of your laptop or notebook computer to see if that resolves your issue.

Don't see what that got to do with 64 bit.

alshain · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:01 pm Post subject: Re: ATI sucks

Maletor · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 48

What exactly does that mean if there are no 64-bit drivers? Would there be absolutely no support at all for the card?

gchen77 · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Florida

Maybe I dont understand your post but there is definitely support for AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64.

Look at http://www.ati.com/developer/altoschart.pdf
In particular Table 3.

It seems like you just need XFree86 version 4.3.0+

PS. Your original email was an automated reply. It does not mean that there is no ATI AMD 64 drivers. It just means that their automatic reply system didn't pick up the keywords necessary to generate a meaningful reply.
You SHOULD get an email from a real AMD tech later.

logon · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject:

We germans say: "Wer lesen kann ist klar im Vorteil!" :-)

At least you now have the choice.

isnogood · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 96

Those are just a bunch of links to redhat and mandrake downloads at ati.I can't try this right now but I am pretty sure that they just use the vesa driver.
I wish I had a choice but there are not that many laptops with an amd64 chip around.
Lesa - was soll des denn sei?

absinthe · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:00 am Post subject:

This was already mentioned on the mailing list, but it bears repeating here:

Gentoo has a contact at ATI who indicated that 64-bit drivers will be made available during the summer. I wouldn't want to speculate on whether we'll see alpha/beta drivers any sooner than that.

In the meantime, a reasonably good 2D is stable in 4.3.99.902. It seems to be working well for everyone who is using it (including myself). It's much better than using the vesa driver. I recommend using that version of xfree with the radeon module, or switch to Nvidia if you need 3D.

Maybe that's not the answer you want, but, that's life.

Sivar · Apprentice Joined: 25 May 2002 Posts: 266 Location: USA

Thankyou, absinthe, for the info. That answers the questions I had *exactly*.
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isnogood · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 96

Thanks for the info - I'll probably be busy till summer to get that thing running right - 3d or not - anyway. :roll:

fredle · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Belgium

well, yeah, I have an amd64 FX, 1GB of RAM, an ati radeon 9800 XT and I even haven't got X working!
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secondshadow · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 362

wgauvin · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject:

fredle · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Belgium

yeah, I've read that,

hmm, THX for the tips guys ;-)

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