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Listing of Vista Drivers 161

Posted by kdawson from the crib-sheet dept.
RadarSync writes to plug their page of links to Vista drivers. Listed are many drivers that Microsoft doesn't have and that aren't easily found on the manufacturer's sites. For Intel alone, 364 drivers are currently linked.
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  • Can become outdated fast (Score:4, Insightful)

    by aliatgb ( 997100 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:41AM (#18078118) Homepage
    The site is a good idea in theory but I would not recommend anyone to a site like this one for fear that they could be downloading outdated drivers since the manufactures site lists the current ones anyway. Its really not that hard to find drivers for your hardware from the manufactures site anyway and its not like this site lists anything out of the ordinary or hard to find.

    • Re:Can become outdated fast (Score:4, Insightful)

      by deft ( 253558 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:52AM (#18078198) Homepage
      the problem is right now that these can't be found. And, they may be linking to pages that are updated themselves.

      so, whent he problem that they cant be found is outdated, you wont have to go to this site anyways. i dont think this is intended to do anything but address the current problem.

    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      by this great guy ( 922511 )

      Its really not that hard to find drivers for your hardware from the manufactures site

      Would grandma be able to do that ? Looks like not even that supposedly easy-to-use OS is really that easy after all...

      • Re:Can become outdated fast (Score:5, Interesting)

        by iamacat ( 583406 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @04:06AM (#18079228)
        While I hate Windows, I actually wish this problem was not so easy for Microsoft to solve. Since they are signing all drivers, they could just determine device's PCI/USB/etc signature and fetch the driver from their website. The problem is that now all the hardware in the world can only be created with Microsoft's approval, which is way too much control for a single company.

        • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

          by Anonymous Coward
          "The problem is that now all the hardware in the world can only be created with Microsoft's approval, which is way too much control for a single company."

          ... You mean like Mac OS X which will only install on specific hardware and only uses their own drivers (for the most part). Not sure why you're complaining. It's true that quite a bit of crashes (bsods) occur on windows due to crappy drivers. I don't see why Microsoft shouldn't regulate the quality of the drivers that are introduced into the operating sys

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by iamacat ( 583406 )
            With all major OSes - Windows, MacOSX and Linux - you are mostly using drivers that come from the vendor. Only MacOSX lets you download and install a binary driver from an unrelated 3rd party and not worry about updating it after every kernel security patch.
        • "The problem is that now all the hardware in the world can only be created with Microsoft's approval, which is way too much control for a single company."

          That's the same stupid nonsense people were saying when Microsoft introduced driver signing. It is only DRM-related drivers that absolutely require a free Microsoft-issued PIC (Publishers Identification Certificate), which in turn requires a class 3 Verisign certificate ($500/yr). All other drivers can be loaded unsigned.

          I won't pretend that I think this i
          • It is only DRM-related drivers that absolutely require a free Microsoft-issued PIC (Publishers Identification Certificate), which in turn requires a class 3 Verisign certificate ($500/yr). All other drivers can be loaded unsigned.

            I won't be buying hardware from a company that can't afford to sign a driver.

            • LOL... I was thinking the same thing when I wrote it. If you're producing anything that'll be electrically connected to my machine, you'd better be able to afford at least a $500 certificate.

              • Re: (Score:2)

                by orasio ( 188021 )
                I just dislike Microsoft, and don't want or need to have anything to do with them. It might not be a sound bussiness decision, but I am entitled to that.
                In the unlikely case that I produced some custom hardware, and its drivers, I might be able to afford, but not willing to agree with MS certification. That doesn't say anything about the quality of my eventual hardware, I think.
                • In that case you are also disassociating yourself from Microsoft's user-base, and that very clearly is not a sound business decision.

            • Re: (Score:2)

              by iamacat ( 583406 )
              • Open source drivers for older hardware, or with extra functionality
              • Software-only drivers for stuff like capturing your sound/video to disk or forwarding over the network.
              • Companies that Microsoft refuse to sign drivers for, because they are direct and dangerous competitors
        • The M$ drivers are missing thinks like SLI, CROSS FIRE, NV CP, ATI CCC and so on.

    • Re:Can become outdated fast (Score:5, Insightful)

      by echo_kmem ( 982727 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @04:04AM (#18079218)

      Its really not that hard to find drivers for your hardware from the manufactures site anyway
      I would see that to be the case when buying whole systems from HP, Dell, Etc. Just as much the same if you buy Brand name parts all the time. But when you work on machines for people who go cheaper and buy off-brand name equipment, then you start spending Hours looking for a driver for their sound card. Also, as another Comment said here, This list appears to serve to point out a problem with the OS than a way for Consumers to easily find Drivers.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by dlim ( 928138 )
        Are people who buy cheap, off-brand equipment really investing the $100-$300 to upgrade their current computer to Windows Vista? It seems more likely that they'd upgrade in a couple of years, when the cheap, off-brand equipment is all running Vista. In that case, the appropriate drivers will be shipped with the machine.

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by empaler ( 130732 )
      I'm sorry to say that yesterday I had to resort to such a site to get my Lexmark x1130 drivers. I just couldn't get to them on Lexmark's site, and I didn't have time to horse around.
      In Lexmark's defence, I'd just like to say that the site seemed slowed, possibly by DOS attacks. Either that or they suck.
      At any rate, I ain't getting me another Lexmark any time soon - too bad for them, as I'm in the market for a fast document scanner... (Any good ideas? :-P )

      • Re:Can become outdated fast (Score:4, Informative)

        by jackharrer ( 972403 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @06:48AM (#18080024)
        I updated my friends desktop (HP Pavillion) with Vista. There were no drivers for AC'97! They got to be joking!
        At least HP has shown they care and I was able to download them from their site. Plus ATI drivers that hardly worked, and some minor problems with WIFI (detected as something totally different, but worked!).
        I had less problems with Mandriva on my new laptop. Everything worked out of the box. Including Compiz and Xgl.

        • That's not true. Not only are drivers built into Vista for Intel audio (AC97 and HD), but most third party codecs are supported too (Realtek, NVIDIA, VIA, etc.)

          Certain AC97 codecs may not be supported, but it's misleading to say that Vista doesn't come with AC97 drivers - for the vast majority of users, it does.

    • Re:Can become outdated fast (Score:5, Insightful)

      by griffjon ( 14945 ) <`GriffJon' `at' `gmail.com'> on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @09:14AM (#18080960) Homepage Journal
      Windows Vista: stealing the pretty GUI crap from Gnome, KDE, and OSX, but leaving out useful shit like apt and yum

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Mongoose ( 8480 )
        I was talking about this the other day. How can you still be using installers over packages in 2007? Packages are primarily data where as installers are ( in this case ) win32 exec. A limited scripting support for mundane things is all you really need. A dependency system might be impossible for Windows to ever implement at this point, since they're locked into their DLL versioning shortcomings. However installing drivers like applications ( and poorly at that ) is a joke. Oh they have their little OE

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by griffjon ( 14945 )
          Ah, you gotta love the /. moderation system, where my little piece of flamebait gets up to 5, whereas your actual thought-out exploration of the problem stops at 2.

          MS needs to do what Apple did when they jumped from 9 to 10; which is (a) change everything and (b) make a virtual machine to keep legacy apps that didn't convert over working.

          As you touched on and the other responder mentioned, Windows has a nascent and under-used "package" system with cab/infs and MSI, it's just not centralized or tied in with

  • Good news for competition (Score:5, Funny)

    by JPMaximilian ( 948958 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:42AM (#18078124)
    This is good news for Linux and OS X. Installing Drivers is so 1998.

    • Re:Good news for competition (Score:5, Insightful)

      by phantomfive ( 622387 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:08AM (#18078290) Journal
      This is good news for Linux and OS X. Installing Drivers is so 1998.

      Yes, because no one ever has trouble getting a wifi card to work under Linux. Or printer drivers working under OSX. In fact, surprising though it may be to you, getting drivers to work is often one of the biggest difficulties of installing Linux. And sure, OSX comes with drivers for all the Apple hardware, but if you have some weird piece of proprietary hardware, there is a good possibility you won't ever find a driver for it.

      As for Windows Vista, I hope it falls on it's face or at least loses 30% market share, leaving the rest for OSX, linux, openbsd, solaris, and a beautiful world of open standards and interoperability. Or at least giving people more freedom to leave windows if they need to.

      • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

        by skoaldipper ( 752281 )
        > As for Windows Vista, I hope it falls on it's face or at least loses 30% market share, leaving the rest for OSX, linux, openbsd, solaris, and a beautiful world of open standards and interoperability.

        It would be nice, but I think that 30 percent drop would just translate to 30 percent fewer people migrating away from XP. Old habits are hard to break, especially consumer loyalty tied to one product in the big bad boogeyman world of technology. I think our one saving grace here is the push by many gover

      • getting drivers to work is often one of the biggest difficulties of installing Linux.

        Well then it's a good thing I use FreeBSD. *ducks*

      • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

        by ElleyKitten ( 715519 )

        Yes, because no one ever has trouble getting a wifi card to work under Linux. Or printer drivers working under OSX. In fact, surprising though it may be to you, getting drivers to work is often one of the biggest difficulties of installing Linux.

        Linux doesn't have drivers for everything, but it's on the right track. I've had over the years an IBM laptop, Compaq laptop, and two Dell desktops (not counting ones I've built myself), all came with Windows of course, and all of their default hardware works 100%

  • Something's missing... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by bubbl07 ( 777082 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:47AM (#18078158) Homepage
    Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any printer drivers. The rest of the stuff seems fairly straight-forward to get, but printer drivers I think have been the bane of everyone's upgrade experience since Windows 98 or earlier. Thank goodness for hplip [sourceforge.net]. However, that won't help me much when I start getting friends and family asking me to upgrade their computers to Vista despite all my year-old warnings. That'll be my cue to sit back smugly and laugh at them.

    In any event, I'm sure there are many that will find this aggregation useful.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dbIII ( 701233 )

      Thank goodness for hplip

      It's a pity HP sacked anyone that knows anything about Designjet plotter drivers a little while back. Even some of their current models listed as postscript are MS Windows only (and really don't understand postscript) and won't have any Vista drivers out anytime soon.

  • challenging period (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:49AM (#18078162)

    From the site: "This FREE page lists the latest Windows Vista drivers and provides direct links to the files for downloads. We're offering this as a free service to the community, to help you all get through this challenging period of Vista-transitioning."

    But all the links go to store.apple.com

    I don't get it.

  • This was just one of my gripes with Vista (the pre-release) was it would not recognise either of my network cards! The XP drivers didn't work with it either.

    The site may work better with a search function and/or a listing by hardware. Windows people without the necessary drivers may be confused by the text names.
  • Why does it seem to me that Microsoft couldn't care less about vista. Vista has compatibility problems out the wazoo, and microsoft won't even host drivers on their web page.

    • Re: (Score:1, Interesting)

      by Treates2 ( 1004837 )
      if they didn't care so much about vista why would they spend so much time in making it uncrackable by hackers and pirates??

      *waits to be proven wrong*

      • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

        by Hucko ( 998827 )
        You can hold your breath now, I believe someone had already done it. Will I be sued if I google hacking Vista?
        http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/01/HNvistas peechbug_1.html [infoworld.com]
        http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128115-c,hackers /article.html [pcworld.com] (okay so this isn't hacking per se, but a crack to make your system more vulnerable. Vista 'prevents' this with it's 'impressive' security)
      • I doubt it is that they don't care. It is more like they were pressued to do something that didn't rely on years of experience. And they were against a deadline to get it done. Microsoft today is were linux was yesterday as far as having to play catch-up with itself. Even with all the beta testing which was likley opened to more people then the betas were for previous versions.

        XP was devloped over 2000 wich was a continuation of NT. Some say Nt sucked and it took untill windows 2000 before it was good enoug

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by dabraun ( 626287 )

          Me, well, It was an experiment gone bad for a lot of people that basicly made them decide to pull 98 into NT/2000 instead of keeping 98 and incorperating the good parts of NT/2000 to create XP.

          This was *always* the plan. No one at microsoft ever seriously intended to "pull the good parts of NT/2000 back into 98 to create XP". If Microsoft could have pulled it off then Win2K would have meant the end of the 9x line, but it wasn't quite there yet.

          9x was built for speed.

          NT was built for stability.

          (both were b

      • Good news, all that work was for nothing as it's already cracked, you can install Vista without a CD key and they give you 30 days grace to enter your key, in which time you're allowed to download updates as if your version of Vista is activated. It is a fairly simple process to stop this countdown permanently at 30 days using a crack available on torrent sites.

    • Re: (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      1. Microsoft cannot legally just download software from any arbitrary vendor and put it on microsoft.com.

      2. Putting a driver on Microsoft's website is an endorsement of quality, which MS may not be able to make for any arbitrary driver.

      3. The most recent driver is on the vendor's web site. The driver you find on microsoft.com may be days or weeks old.

      In other words, MS does host drivers on their web site, but only those that vendors supply and pass certain QA tests. Since MS relies on vendors to submit the

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by killjoe ( 766577 )
      Why should they? Vista is going to get shoved down every fuck who buys a computer anyway so why should they do anything at all.
  • Why aren't these drivers listed alphabetically? http://www.radarsync.com/vista/vista_more.php?resu lt=0 [radarsync.com] And no search feature?

  • Never mind Vista Drivers (Score:5, Insightful)

    by jaseparlo ( 819802 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:54AM (#18078204) Homepage
    I've just spent two days trying to get XP working on a HP notebook that arrived here with Vista preinstalled. We can't and won't use Vista (no Novell support, and you wouldn't use an only-just-released OS in a corporate environment anyway), but the HP site doesn't offer any XP drivers for it's current models. Hunted around and managed to get drivers for most things, but the nvidia driver refuses to work...

    I understand that M$ has forced the Vista install on vendors, but I don't understand why they can't make the rollback to XP an option for those of us that want/need it.

    • Re:Never mind Vista Drivers (Score:5, Informative)

      by Osty ( 16825 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:23AM (#18078402)

      Hunted around and managed to get drivers for most things, but the nvidia driver refuses to work...

      Don't blame HP for that one. Blame nVidia's insistence that OEMs support mobile chipsets with their own "official" drivers (which the likes of HP/Compaq and Dell never keep up to date, of course). The thing is, mobile chipsets are generally no different from their desktop counterparts when it comes to drivers. For nVidia drivers, check out LaptopVideo2Go.com [laptopvideo2go.com]. For ATi, try DH Mod tool [driverheaven.net]. In either case, the "problem" is that the inf for the drivers don't contain the right information to detect mobile chipsets, even though the drivers will work just fine on them. The "fix" is to hack the inf so that the installers will allow you to apply the drivers to your mobile card.

      • Re:Never mind Vista Drivers (Score:4, Informative)

        by ettlz ( 639203 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @05:50AM (#18079716) Journal

        In either case, the "problem" is that the inf for the drivers don't contain the right information to detect mobile chipsets, even though the drivers will work just fine on them. The "fix" is to hack the inf so that the installers will allow you to apply the drivers to your mobile card.

        That's right. Just to add a bit on: I get the latest nVidia drivers working on my notebook by unpacking both the recent executable and the one on the CD-ROM supplied with the notebook with 7-zip, copying the .inf file across, and then running the setup utility.

      • Sadly this'll be off the front page now, but I just wanted to say thanks! Who woulda thought whining on Slashdot would find me a solution!
    • Can I downgrade my OEM version of Windows Vista Business to Windows XP Professional?
      Yes. OEM downgrade rights for desktop PC operating systems apply to Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate as stated in the License Terms. Please note, OEM downgrade versions of Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate are limited to Windows XP Professional (including Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Windows XP x64 Edition). End users can use the following media for their downgrade: Volume Licensing medi

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by dpilot ( 134227 )
        It clearly appears that Microsoft is going to *force* Vista to be a success, and most likely they have the clout to do so.

        But in this case, though you have the "right" to downgrade your system to XP Pro, do you have the capability do to so?

        Drivers are always the thorn in the side, manufacturers would like to supply as few as possible. Now in order to make new sales with OEM Windows they *must* deliver Vista drivers. But no corporation deploys a new OS immediately, it's more likely to be 6-12 months, perhaps

    • you wouldn't use an only-just-released OS in a corporate environment anyway

      You wouldn't? Hint, I can think of a company with 70,000 employees that has Vista and Office 2007 deployed to the desktop, and has for a while now. ;)

      It's made a little easier for us as we get access to a lot of drivers before the general public, though.

      • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward

        You wouldn't? Hint, I can think of a company with 70,000 employees that has Vista and Office 2007 deployed to the desktop, and has for a while now. ;)

        Yeah, and we all see how well that's working out for them. Their latest "revolutionary" product is a few years late and way over budget. Maybe the GP has a point ;-)

    • I understand that M$ has forced the Vista install on vendors, but I don't understand why they can't make the rollback to XP an option for those of us that want/need it.
      ...they aren't allowed?
    • Rollback-to-XP options are definitely available - it may depend on how many systems you buy.
  • Why do third parties even need to complile these lists? Shoudln't Microsoft be on top of this?

    • Re:Vista Drivers Page Necessary? (Score:4, Funny)

      by statusbar ( 314703 ) <jeffk@statusbar.com> on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:09AM (#18078306) Homepage Journal
      Soon, when Vista gets as many drivers as linux already has, perhaps Vista will be ready for the desktop!

      --jeffk++

      • Tip for Vista users (Score:5, Funny)

        by alienmole ( 15522 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:19AM (#18078362)
        You don't need this drivers page, all you need is to disable those pesky security dialogs and go surf the web for a while. Be sure to click "Yes" or "OK" on any messages that pop up. Pretty soon, everything you need to run Vista will be downloaded and installed on your machine automatically!
      • Oddly enough, when I upgraded to Vista all I needed were graphics card drivers. I'd expected to spend forever hunting on the web (it's a notebook without a Vista-sticker, so the manufacturer won't provide Vista drivers), but even my wireless card worked out of the box.
    • Why do third parties even need to complile these lists? Shoudln't Microsoft be on top of this?

      It reminds me when win95 was new and I had a microtek 600z scanner, something I shelled out well over $400 for. Not scsi nor parallel. There technicaly was a beta driver burried deep in microtek's FTP site. It was a flacky piece of filth but was good enough... well... until scanner prices dropped. I'm sure others experenced annoyance with early generation scanners, even many scsi ones.

      My point is i'm sure micro

      • Not scsi nor parallel.

        So what the hell interface did it use? Did you think it mightn't be the wisest idea to purchase something with a wacky proprietary interface and hope that it'd support what was quite a dramatically changed operating system? :)

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by DrKyle ( 818035 )
          Wasn't there a time (back in this win95 era) that USB was the wacky new proprietary format?
        • So what the hell interface did it use? Did you think it mightn't be the wisest idea to purchase something with a wacky proprietary interface and hope that it'd support what was quite a dramatically changed operating system? :)

          The hell interface it used was so propriority I don't know the name of it. The adapter card was called the "Microtek, MS-PCY". This was just when twain was pretty new. I, after all, did buy the scanner before win95 was released, by a good couple of years.

          It "may" have not been the b
      • I'm sorry... what!?

        My point is i'm sure microsoft provides links to drivers which it takes the time to test for compatability, but one can not expect them to cover everything, esp not this soon into the release.

        Even if they did, the drivers microsoft reccomends are not always the best.

        Funny, because I remember people mentioning that Apple had plenty of time to test iTunes to make sure it worked with Vista. So, if that's true, why hasn't Microsoft had time to test drivers? And isn't it the manufacturer'

        • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

          by zakezuke ( 229119 )
          Funny, because I remember people mentioning that Apple had plenty of time to test iTunes to make sure it worked with Vista. So, if that's true, why hasn't Microsoft had time to test drivers? And isn't it the manufacturer's job to provide drivers? If drivers aren't available through first party channels, why is the OEM even selling a machine where the hardware isn't supported by the software provided?

          Firstly... i'm not sure that iTunes works with vista. I thought there were issues with iTunes and aero but I
  • Some of the entries point to Beta drivers. They should at least make a note on the website that the drivers are not final. Many of the drivers are XP drivers (the ZIP file contains WinXP in its name).

    Users are better off just going directly to the manufacturer's websites. If drivers are Beta they may not find them easily, but at least they'll be warned. And if there's no Vista driver they won't download an XP driver and try to use it without warning.

  • Google Cache (Score:4, Informative)

    by Reo Strong ( 661900 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:21AM (#18078386)
    http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:YltYVhNTm0gJ:w ww.radarsync.com/vista/+http://www.radarsync.com/v ista/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&lr=lang_en&client=f irefox-a [72.14.203.104]

    Google Cache: you know, since I can't see the page anymore, maybe some of you can't either.

    //no html skilz

  • Manufacture specific (Score:3, Informative)

    by sieb ( 749103 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:50AM (#18078560)
    Be careful, alot of these are manufacture specific, example: the Atheros drivers. I've been hoping to find some Atheros drivers that work in Vista on the Macbook that include a newer version of their Client software (old versions have all options greyed out), but the drivers on this site are for either IBM or Fujitsu laptops. Also keep in mind that many companies, like Atheros, don't release their own drivers publicly and instead rely on the hardware manufacture to maintain them.
    • Atheros drivers, while released by manufacturers, are usually pretty agnostic in the final installation, as they target the chipsets themselves. This happens often with pretty much everybody -- it's getting more and more rare for companies (especially video card manufacturers) to do any serious tweaking of the drivers, because they're running close to reference hardware. For wireless NICs, the changes are often minor such as slightly different transmit powers or more or less sensitive antennae, and have n
  • The simple fact that they can hope to list all drivers for a Windows platform speaks a lot of the state of Vista hardware support.

    Wonder when we get www.vistaprinting.org, www.vistawireless.org, www.vista-laptop.net ...

  • I see you are going to look for drivers on Vista (Score:3, Funny)

    by Billly Gates ( 198444 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @02:42AM (#18078792) Journal
    Are you sure you want to visit this page?

    I see you are about to install the driver? Are you really really sure?
    • I don't see why everyone bashes this so much. My Ubuntu install works in a very similar manner. Whenever anything needs root privileges it pops up a password dialog (unless, of course, I'm in a shell and have to sudo instead), but you don't hear everyone yapping all day about "Synaptix needs root privileges, please enter your password".

      Everyone's been barking about Windows running as root constantly, and now that they've changed that model everyone barks because Windows prompts you before it runs something
      • Have you actually used Vista?

        I know they have dialed it down some since I last used it (I used some of the first public betas as my main Windows OS for a couple of months last year) but when I was using it, it would ask about _EVERYTHING_.... and I really mean everything. It was unbelievable how often it would ask... and was definitely really annoying.

        I know that windows needs to get more secure, and one way of moving towards that goal is to have these nag screens.... but after using it for a while I reall

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Digz ( 90264 )
          Quite honestly, it has changed a lot. I'm running RC1 right now, and (like I stated before) the prompting really isn't any more intrusive than on Edgy. To tell the truth, I was rather surprised.

          It's also a lot faster than it used to be. Beta 2 was pretty much unusable to me on my old machine (a 2.4 GHz with 1.2GB of RAM). That was almost enough for me to write it off for good. But a friend of mine just bought a Vista laptop with 1 GB of RAM, and it was surprisingly responsive (especially after the fiasco I
  • I took a quick look at the list of drivers on the site, and it looks like a collection of x86 drivers designed for XP. What about 64 bit drivers? -- Louarnkoz
  • According to Netcraft the RadarSync site runs on Apache/2.0.40 Red Hat Linux:

    http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.radarsync.com [netcraft.com]

  • Whoever is crazy enough to download drivers (Score:5, Insightful)

    by slashdot.org ( 321932 ) on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @05:37AM (#18079672) Homepage Journal
    Whoever is crazy enough to download drivers from places linked to by this site?

    I mean, all good intentions aside, but drivers are binary files, it's rediculous enough that most of them aren't digitally signed even when downloaded from the original manufacturer. But explain why exactly this site is sending us to "files.3dnews.ru" to download ATI drivers???

    Shit, I can't even come up with a hooker/unprotected sex analogy that's silly enough to describe this.

    In any case, if this is the way for Vista customers to get their new purchase to work, then yeah, glory days for Linux ahead...
    • Well, 3Dnews.ru is a serious russian tech news, review, and analysis site which keeps a nice archive of ATI/NVIDIA (and other) drivers dating back to the Detonator age so there shouldn't be any problems downloading there. But I agree with you on the general principle (not the day of Linux on desktop part) that the things you're expected to install as admin should be digitally signed, and preferably come from the manufacturer's site.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by kabocox ( 199019 )
      I mean, all good intentions aside, but drivers are binary files, it's rediculous enough that most of them aren't digitally signed even when downloaded from the original manufacturer. But explain why exactly this site is sending us to "files.3dnews.ru" to download ATI drivers???

      Shit, I can't even come up with a hooker/unprotected sex analogy that's silly enough to describe this.

      Oh, damn now that made me actually think of one. All OS driver sex is bad because you just can't find "clean" virgins out there. Ope
  • Apparently, listing the drivers in alphabetical order is beyond the limited mental capacity of the idiot running that site. So I had to scroll through 6 pages of randomly listed drivers just so I could find out that the one I was looking for isn't there.

    Thanks for nothing.

  • At last we have a list of these vista drivers! There is nothing more dangerous than people driving around, not paying attention and looking off in to the distance! Now you can tell if your neighbor or one of your family members is a vista driver. People that drive like this are a traffic hazard and a menace to society! Why, just the other day, I was driving to work and beside me was someone - not paying attention - looking off into the dist...
    What? what do you mean? oh... not those drivers? Vista is a wh
  • I just tried using those drivers for a Logitech QuickCam, but it still wouldn't install. I also tried going through Logitech's site and getting the Vista x64 drivers; still didn't work.

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