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Rant! ATI Radeon



I am getting pretty P.O.'d at ATI.

I had an old Radeon AGP card with TV out that used to work O.K. but I
wanted to setup my home entertainment system. I tried to use the
proprietary ATI drivers to get TVOut working.

Guess what? ATI wasn't supporting the old card. I didn't worry too much
because I can understand, when creating a new driver project, you have to
choose a starting point.

So, a year or two ago I bought a Radeon 9200SE based AGP card for my
system. It worked pretty well, until I upgraded to edgy. Then DGA didn't
work quite right, but it was a known bug and was going to be fixed.

I just upgraded to Feisty, and guess what!? They dropped official support
for the 9200SE.

This is ridiculous. Anyone else have an ATI story?

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