AMD says about Linux Avivo support even for AGP cards

[thefirstm]

Originally Posted by Deanjo

You mean the same ATI that dropped support for the R500 and under with their blobs? The same ATI that has no near future plans in their opensource drivers for HD acceleration just basic XvMC?

Yep. They did. That would be like Nvidia suddenly dropping support for 6xx0 and 7xx0 cards.

[enkidu]

Originally Posted by blandoon

All the major distributions have a 180.xx driver in their package managers by now. I've installed it (on openSUSE, in my case) without the need for any command line interaction. If you want to run the bleeding-edge drivers, then you need to learn a little something about how your system works.

I know how my system works. But here come group of windows-kids looking for something like "nvdriver.exe" with "next" "next" "close" buttons - those users are yelling loud, that linux is not user friendly.

Anyways - its still strange, that I can use my 6600 to watch accelerated videos under windows and no under linux. Business, you say... So maybe its time to buy source code or longer support for older cards?

[kernelOfTruth]

Originally Posted by thefirstm

Yep. They did. That would be like Nvidia suddenly dropping support for 6xx0 and 7xx0 cards.

from what I've read they're starting an legacy-branch like nvidia currently has ...