Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Open-Source ATI R500 3D Milestone Reached!
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> | Coming just a day after AMD had opened up their production microcode from
> | their proprietary drivers for the R100 to R600 GPUs, a significant milestone
> | has been reached in the road to open-source 3D graphics capabilities for the
> | Radeon X1000 (R500) series. We now have hardware-accelerated glxgears!
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=r500_glxgears&num=1
>
> In time for Easter! Big win for the Free software movement. More good progress
> in NVIDIA land.
>
Most of my machines have nVIDIA cards in, but I have an ATi Radeon HD2900 Pro in
one of my machines. Some distros support it, some don't....but this is from
ATi/AMD's website FAQ:
<quote>
Qu: In which formats is the ATI Proprietary Linux driver available?
Ans: The Linux drivers available from our website are available in RPM format as
well as a Graphical User Interface installer (operates in both text and
X-windows modes). We are also in discussions with various distribution
maintainers to provide our drivers in their formats using their repositories
and delivery systems in the future.
<unquote>
It would certainly make things easier, if all the major distros provided ATi
drivers in their own repositories & their own formats.
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