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ATI's 5.1 Drivers

Re: ATI's 5.1 Drivers Posted by omegaslayer on Mon Jan 17th 2005 at 9:55pm
omegaslayer
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Posted 2005-01-17 9:55pm
Post #69432
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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
Re: ATI's 5.1 Drivers Posted by xconspirisist on Mon Jan 17th 2005 at 10:49pm
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Posted 2005-01-17 10:49pm
Post #69447
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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 :biggrin: Ahh
bless, thank god they've got round to it. Excellent stuff. Aha, that's
really made my day :biggrin:
Re: ATI's 5.1 Drivers Posted by Crono on Mon Jan 17th 2005 at 10:52pm
Crono
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Posted 2005-01-17 10:52pm
Post #69449
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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?
Re: ATI's 5.1 Drivers Posted by xconspirisist on Mon Jan 17th 2005 at 10:55pm
xconspirisist
307 posts
Posted 2005-01-17 10:55pm
Post #69452
xconspirisist
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307 posts 81 snarkmarks Registered: Feb 26th 2003 Occupation: Student Location: UK
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.
Re: ATI's 5.1 Drivers Posted by Crono on Mon Jan 17th 2005 at 11:20pm
Crono
6628 posts
Posted 2005-01-17 11:20pm
Post #69463
Crono
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6628 posts 700 snarkmarks Registered: Dec 19th 2003 Location: Oregon, USA
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.
Re: ATI's 5.1 Drivers Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Jan 18th 2005 at 1:07am
omegaslayer
2481 posts
Posted 2005-01-18 1:07am
Post #69500
omegaslayer
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They work great, fixed a problem in HL2 that I had, and I swear that I got a +5 fps :biggrin:
Re: ATI's 5.1 Drivers Posted by Wild Card on Tue Jan 18th 2005 at 2:57am
Wild Card
2321 posts
Posted 2005-01-18 2:57am
Post #69534
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Maybe a new pair of glasses is in order there crono?
Re: ATI's 5.1 Drivers Posted by Loco on Tue Jan 18th 2005 at 8:16am
Loco
615 posts
Posted 2005-01-18 8:16am
Post #69573
Loco
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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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SING HALLELULJAH!!!
Re: ATI's 5.1 Drivers Posted by Crono on Tue Jan 18th 2005 at 8:28am
Crono
6628 posts
Posted 2005-01-18 8:28am
Post #69575
Crono
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6628 posts 700 snarkmarks Registered: Dec 19th 2003 Location: Oregon, USA
Loco, are you part of "The
Revolution"?

No, WC. It's just disorienting. I think the
exclamation points threw me off.
Re: ATI's 5.1 Drivers Posted by Loco on Tue Jan 18th 2005 at 8:34am
Loco
615 posts
Posted 2005-01-18 8:34am
Post #69576
Loco
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615 posts 121 snarkmarks Registered: Aug 29th 2003 Occupation: Student Location: UK
Loco, are you part of "The
Revolution"?
Yep! :biggrin:

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...