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Posted by omegaslayer on Mon Jan 17th at 9:55pm 2005

I wouldnt have know about this unless I was surfing the steam forums (ohh boy its spam galore there). Soo I'd thought I'd pass the info onto the next person who doesnt know about them.
ATI released their new 5.1 drivers (from the pervious 4.9.#). It can be found HERE [addsig]



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Posted by xconspirisist on Mon Jan 17th at 10:49pm 2005

WOO!!! XORG LINUX SUPPORT !!!

Yayaye; All bad feelings and death threats reset, opinion of ati is back on the positive side now, i've always liked those guys Ahh bless, thank god they've got round to it. Excellent stuff. Aha, that's really made my day




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Posted by Crono on Mon Jan 17th at 10:52pm 2005

They have Linux drivers for X86 and 64-bit machines. Cards from 8500 to x800 ...

I think the better question would be: do they work well?
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Posted by xconspirisist on Mon Jan 17th at 10:55pm 2005

They work fine. They've had Xfree support for donkeys years, but any distribution that is being activly maintained has switched to xorg in the last few months, rendering those xfree drivers utterly unstable, crashey, horrible, patchy and the rest that goes with that.
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Posted by Crono on Mon Jan 17th at 11:20pm 2005

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They work fine. They've had Xfree support for donkeys years, but any distribution that is being activly maintained has switched to xorg in the last few months, rendering those xfree drivers utterly unstable, crashey, horrible, patchy and the rest that goes with that.


Ah, I miss read what you said. See? Making letters bigger doesn't make them easier to read.
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Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Jan 18th at 1:07am 2005

They work great, fixed a problem in HL2 that I had, and I swear that I got a +5 fps
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Posted by Wild Card on Tue Jan 18th at 2:57am 2005

Maybe a new pair of glasses is in order there crono?

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Posted by Loco on Tue Jan 18th at 8:16am 2005

? quote:
They have Linux drivers for X86 and 64-bit machines. Cards from 8500 to x800 ...

I think the better question would be: do they work well?


SING HALLELULJAH!!!
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Posted by Crono on Tue Jan 18th at 8:28am 2005

Loco, are you part of "The Revolution"?

No, WC. It's just disorienting. I think the exclamation points threw me off.

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Posted by Loco on Tue Jan 18th at 8:34am 2005

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Loco, are you part of "The Revolution"?



Yep!

I've got myself a 64-bit AMD Athlon 3000+, and I'm messing around with Windows 64-bit edition. It's actually quite good, once you've got the motherboard driver issues sorted. On my machine it tended to not recognise the speaker plugs, and labelled it "unknown PCI device", but once I got the drivers it was fine. Firefox also works well on it. Roll on the final releases...
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