Gene Heskett writes:
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Barry Yu wrote:Any one has experienced the ATI proprietary linux installer for FC6 or F7 ?Yes, painfull is an understatement. Then to top that off, I get it installed, and *then* find they've dropped support for a well under 5 year old card, (rv-280 based) screw the feds and their 5 year regulations on that subject.So then I bought an nvidia card.
Fast forward 5 years from today. Nvidia drops support for your card, from their drivers. And the old drivers do not work on Fedora 15.
I guess you'll buy a newer card, then. That, of course, is precisely why both ATI and Nvidia would drop support for their older cards.
I suppose that a few hundred bucks, every 5-7 years, is probably not the end of the world, but I'd still feel rather disgusted, in your shoes. If I wanted to be treated like that, I'd still be using Windows. But there's a reason I run Linux, and going back to non-free software and device drivers has always seemed like a step backwards, to me.
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