Why on earth doesent ati support mobility?

don't worry, they have their reasons. You don't buy them straight from the OEM, which is ATI. They are sold to laptop manufacturer companies like HP, Dell or Toshiba which have their own lines of support.

Same way, ATI sends its drivers to those companies as well, and they provide it to you. If ATI started supporting mobility chipsets you would have a lot of problems with your laptop's manufacturer because they would not support anything that doesn't have their own drivers on the system.
 
Indeed... if you want good mobile drivers though, theres mobilemod, and the omegas, both of which are wonderfull ways to improve mobile preformance...

The other thing is... they allow the laptop manufacturers to do minor modifacations to the cards, such as getting rid of functions... and ati doesnt want to keep track of this, since it can change with every model of them...

Of course then theres the manufacturers that pull tricks like using a 9000mob core and tricking it into thinking its a 9200 and selling it as one >.> dont ask...(Spesific case...)
 
The reason is that in the past, they used to use different cores for their desktop and mobile solutions. This complexed with special features, and the different requirements for the special LCD resolutions some of the lappys use, made the problems worse. This required specialized drivers for the mobile solutions which ended up being crappy modified versions of ati's drivers.

As ATI has taken a turn and is now using the same cores for the desktop and mobile markets, you will see that ATI will start writing drivers that support all the new current cards mobile or desktop in the future.

Or you can get the Dhmodtool that Patje created. That will convert the REAL ati drivers to be useable on most mobility chipsets.
 
I do believe that Terry said in an interview he intends to move mobility chips under the catalyst umbrella sometime in the future. But I can't remember if he said he WOULD do that or if he'd LIKE to do that.
 
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