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Originally posted by he_the_great View PostAh yes, I wanted to comment on Linus' stance, but didn't recall what it was, and he does a good job of explaining it.
Linus doesn't give a damn about FOSS, actually he doesn't give a damn about anything except making his life easier.
I just don't like it when people portray going against Opensource philosophy as going against Linux (unless used in the GNU/Linux form). If you want to say binary-blobs go against Linux it is only because of the assumption of a constant ABI, which is a Windows thing.
While Linus may be the pragmatic engineer, many X.Org members are of the opinion that it is impossible to maintain drivers that are out-of-tree (now out-of-fdo) and/or do not have source available. nvidia, fglrx, psb, and other drivers have demonstrated this problem amply through their inability to be usable over more than one or two revisions of the Xorg server despite only minor changes in the video DDX API.
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MostAwesomeDude: thanks for the insight. Question: is AMD/ATI sponsoring the open source drivers at all, besides opening the docs which is of course very nice? Do they have in-house people contributing code to the radeon and/or radeonHD repositories? Or are they at least in touch with you? If not, have they communicated whether they plan to do this in the future? (whenever the basic functionality is supported in the open source driver so they can just drop fglrx)?
If this is a FAQ documented somewhere I'll gladly read from there, please someone post the link
Thank you!
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Originally posted by mendieta View PostMostAwesomeDude: thanks for the insight. Question: is AMD/ATI sponsoring the open source drivers at all, besides opening the docs which is of course very nice? Do they have in-house people contributing code to the radeon and/or radeonHD repositories? Or are they at least in touch with you? If not, have they communicated whether they plan to do this in the future? (whenever the basic functionality is supported in the open source driver so they can just drop fglrx)?
If this is a FAQ documented somewhere I'll gladly read from there, please someone post the link
Thank you!
but you shouldnt forget the people who did the documentation for the cards, because that too seemed to be a shitload of work and is one of the most important parts for the development of this driver!
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Thanks!
Originally posted by Pfanne View Postbut you shouldnt forget the people who did the documentation for the cards, because that too seemed to be a shitload of work and is one of the most important parts for the development of this driver!
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Originally posted by mendieta View PostI think very, very, very few people refer to the kernel when they say "Linux", but rather the whole operating system. The OS as a whole, I dare to say, is mostly developed by people who do care about freedom of choice, and therefore, the right to have access to the source code of what they use.
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Originally posted by Darksurf View PostThese drivers are great. you just need patches is all.
If you use a gentoo based distro, i've got an ebuild and fix
that will work to get them going. sorry, its a crappy ebuild
but it gets the job done.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8EPKR4FM
cd and extract this to /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers/
ebuild ati-drivers-8.62.ebuild digest
emerge =ati-drivers-8.62
(after you finish emerging the ebuild doesn't work well so you need to do this)
cd /usr/portage/distfiles
chmod +x ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.run
./ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.run
a) ebuild ... digest is wrong. FOR A LONG TIME
it is ebuild ... manifest
b) what the bullshit about running the installer? NEVER RUN THE INSTALLER ON A GENTOO SYSTEM!
Where did you come up with this?
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I hope nobody fucked up his system with Darksurf's instructions.
Here:
download that
extract in /usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/
make sure you have ~arch set for ati-drivers
emerge ati-drivers
eselect opengl set ati.
AND DON'T FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS FROM Darksurf!
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Originally posted by mendieta View PostDo they have in-house people contributing code to the radeon and/or radeonHD repositories?
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