 Permalink for comment 271704 by klimg on Sun 16th Sep 2007
11:33 UTC Member since:  The sis driver is a one man project w/o
any support from the manufacturer and pretty much a hit or miss
thing depending on the chipset. Not a good idea to bring that
mess up as an example for a great driver (don't mean to put down
Winischhofer - he does an excellent job with the resources he
got).  ATI is/was a mess for years and had so many shortcomings
I don't even care to mention it.  As they get ready to integrate
the CPU/GPU for low cost systems and Linux gets some traction in
that market they decide to release specs. Somebody could get the
idea that they couldn't get it right for years and now decided
to let the xorg folks do their job for free to be ready in time.
Nvidia supported Linux and other OS's for a long time and was
out there with an 64 bit driver when Ati was out there with a
bunch of promises. Not being a close relative of RMS I don't see
myself switching to ATI anytime soon.  Reply Score: 2