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> MS actively tries to keep driver compatibility between releases vista > Case in point my Radeon X1950 can no longer run the catalyst drivers in Linux wat.

by Hello71 13y ago

> MS actively tries to keep driver compatibility between releases vista > Case in point my Radeon X1950 can no longer run the catalyst drivers in Linux wat. this has literally. nothing. to. do. with. linux. devs. AMD. does. not. support. these. cards. in fact, your example of the X1950 is a perfect example of which cards the OSS community supports better than proprietary.

slacka 13y ago
> in fact, your example of the X1950 is a perfect example of which cards the OSS community supports better than proprietary. Wow, that's some twisted logic. AMD doesn't support the cards under Windows 8, but I can still load the unsupported Vista drivers and play modern games. Last time I benchmarked OpenArea in Windows vs the Linux Gallium3D, windows was 3x-5x faster, while the last working catalyst was 90% of windows. Beyond the Quake2/3 engine games, Gallium3D are worthless for gaming. I've had terrible luck with Humble Bundle games like Penumbra and demos like unigine that run perfectly under windows and Linux with the catalyst drivers, but are broken under Gallium3d. The X1950 is in my spare PC. My primary rig is an AMD 5970 and I dread the day I'm forced to use Gallium3d drivers because of some GPL zealot kernel developer changed some driver interface. I'd love to see Valve pull a Google here to enforce a stable binary driver interface.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  Stable internal ABI has been beaten to death. It isn't going to happen, nor should it.