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LinuxWarrior · Apr 18, 2005, 02:43 PM

Is there any chance to DRI developers get the proper documentation from Ati in order to develop their opensource driver for the latest radeon cards(post r200)?

Now that XGI and VIA are releasing GPL drivers to their cards, wouldn't be a nice oportunity to get ATI involved in OpenSource development too?

the newest drivers are growing in maturity, although there's still a lot of features missing, like suport for R430 cards, Radeon framebuffer, xinerama, tv-out, and so on...
So with the help of the community ATI could get what all costumers want, a good driver. There's a lot of unsatisfied users that payed for powerfull hardware, but due the lack of software support can't get all the features and performance for the price they have payed.

What you think?

PS: I would like to see the replay of ATI people

Apr 18, 2005, 02:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
LinuxWarrior DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 7	Radeon OpenSource Driver Is there any chance to DRI developers get the proper documentation from Ati in order to develop their opensource driver for the latest radeon cards(post r200)? Now that XGI and VIA are releasing GPL drivers to their cards, wouldn't be a nice oportunity to get ATI involved in OpenSource development too? the newest drivers are growing in maturity, although there's still a lot of features missing, like suport for R430 cards, Radeon framebuffer, xinerama, tv-out, and so on... So with the help of the community ATI could get what all costumers want, a good driver. There's a lot of unsatisfied users that payed for powerfull hardware, but due the lack of software support can't get all the features and performance for the price they have payed. What you think? PS: I would like to see the replay of ATI people