Flipping the Linux switch: Envy, no longer a deadly sin
,----[ Quote ]
| Our experience with Envy has been largely very positive. It has gotten
| drivers successfully installed on systems that were being very temperamental.
| We have never experienced problems with it that go beyond the problems we
| were already having with our drivers.
`----
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/02/08/flipping-the-linux-switch-envy-no-longer-a-deadly-sin/
10 days in linux
,----[ Quote ]
| # Always use envy to install your drivers. For whatever reason, the default
| restricted installer doesn’t install a very good driver.
`----
http://meg-tech.com/?p=62
OpenSolaris Ships RadeonHD Driver
,----[ Quote ]
| Since last September when AMD's new open-source strategy was unveiled, their
| xf86-video-radeonhd driver and NDA-free documentation efforts have largely
| been to improve its Linux customer base. However, with this open community
| enablement, it has also led to an improved ATI hardware status in Sun's
| Solaris Operating System. Introduced in Build 80 of OpenSolaris was the
| RadeonHD display driver and this R500/600 driver has now appeared in Solaris
| Express Developer Edition 1/08 and Project Indiana Preview 2.
`----
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=996&num=1
Related:
Could AMD move open desktop Linux market?
,----[ Quote ]
| AMD’s recent move to fully support open source graphics could be the best
| news desktop Linux has had in a long time.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1427
AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs
,----[ Quote ]
| Ending off the X Developer Summit this year, Matthew Tippett handed off ATI's
| GPU specifications to David Airlie on a CD (as reported by Daniel Stone).
| However, the specifications are also now available on the Internet!
`----
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA1Mw
|
|
