Will ATI Give The FOSS Community A X-Mas Present?

[yoshi314]

Or any other holiday surprises for the FOSS community?

fglrx properly rewritten from scratch + more specs ?

[Cuppa-Chino]

all I want for christmas from amd/ati is video acceleration, I am still (yes still) pondering whether to go for an amd mainboard (690g w/ BE2350) or an intel mainboard (g33/g35 w/pentium e21*0)

[Kano]

Well i think there is no real question what you should buy...

[Cuppa-Chino]

Well i think there is no real question what you should buy...

that is ? I am really still stuck, honestly.

Pro Intel:
+ As per Michael Intel will be getting Xvmc in the open driver some time
+ Better processor
+ More powerful chipset
+ I expect no/low problems with standbye etc

Pro AMD:
+ 690G has been around ==> good support
+ Power consumption a bit lower
+ No need to buy TV-out ADD2 board (currently do not have an HDTV yet)

that is where I am at

[Kano]

I would not say that something with AMD IGP chipset has "good" support. Maybe you read this board not correctly enough.

[Cuppa-Chino]

I would not say that something with AMD IGP chipset has "good" support. Maybe you read this board not correctly enough.

to be fair, yes I have seen the problems with it, but I think they are surmountable, I might go intel though after such encouragement

now the case.... I am limited on space gotta get that measuring stick out again

[Ole-Martin Broz]

well

I think the radeon hd will take over

[yoshi314]

I think the radeon hd will take over

my thoughts exactly.

when radeonhd gets better and more functional ati will most likely make and add-on blob to it with all the proprietary stuff getting (optionally) linked at build-time :]

[Ze..]

my thoughts exactly.

when radeonhd gets better and more functional ati will most likely make and add-on blob to it with all the proprietary stuff getting (optionally) linked at build-time :]

If it does that it'll have to change it's windows driver as well since they've gone to an integrated driver for both.

Taking a blob of code out of it and just expecting it to work without being completely rewritten for radeonhd is like believing in fairies and pixie dust.

[yoshi314]

Taking a blob of code out of it and just expecting it to work without being completely rewritten for radeonhd is like believing in fairies and pixie dust.

i didn't say that. i said "ati will most likely make and add-on blob", basing on radeonhd codebase :]

i'm not sure about licensing issues. that might make it impossible.