From: Alejandro A. <aar...@in...> - 2002-11-21 20:36:58
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Hi Does this driver works with Powered By Ati cards?? The previus driver didnt work giving the error that is not a Build By Ati card. Here in my City is impossible to find a BBA ATI, so i had to buy a Powercolor (powered by) ATI 8500. The nvidia binary only driver works with any brand of card that has an nvidia chip. I hope this driver or the next will work with powered by cards. The only reason i bought an Ati 8500 was that the weather channel paid for the opensource DRI driver, or i would just buy an nvidia card instead, because thier driver supports all the cards. Nice to see ATI support for Linux :-) Alejandro Arrieta Rios Computer Science Student UTFSM, Valparaiso, Chile On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Alexander Stohr wrote: > Hello, > > i know that DRI is targeting open source development, > but i know myselves that for a developer there can > always be a need for a 2nd source driver reference. > There are several other reasons why an alternate > Linux driver might be of interest for the audience. > > So please excuse me for posting this information to your lists. > > So this passed the news wires today: > ATI drives graphics performance for Linux users with new unified driver > http://mirror.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2002/4574.html > > The drivers can now be downloaded for free at www.ati.com > (see e.g. Linux & FireGL 8800). > > The drivers should run on Linux/x86 with glibc 2.2, > some common kernel modules do come precompiled and > a build environment for gcc2.96 and gcc3.2 is included, > thus making that drivers compatible with > e.g. RedHat(R) Linux(R)/x86 8.0 or 7.3 versions. > > Supported cards should be (list might not be complete): > - ATI Radeon 8500 {/DV/LE}, 9000 {/PRO}, 9500 {/PRO}, 9700 {/PRO} -> "Built > by ATI" > - ATI FireGL 8700, 8800, E1, X1, Z1/X1-128MB (just announced for retail), > Mobility > > I installed that drivers and tested them a tiny little bit. > Simple applications like glxgears do perform very well and > they are working quite nice for ut2003_demo (S3TC!), Maya and Houdini. > My impression is that things like Quake, Chromium or Blender should work. > I just had a few minutes of a one-man tournament session this noon. > > I tried XVideo support and it showed that the CPU usage of TOP > was higher than that of the video player application. Features > that you will on FireGL boards are Overlays and PBuffer rendering > support. > > Please excuse me again, i furthert want to give a few of the end > users an alternative to the dri drivers, which are often only > really useable if you do have downloaded som 60 MB of CVS sources > and built whole XF86 with a not totally trivial process. > > Let me express that i do _not_ object to any of the DRI-Devel works. > DRI did great job and it resolves for situations where ATI > cant provide solutions as of today and possibly long term. > Just saying embedded Radeon chipsets, ATI chipsets on BSD, > old ATI chipsets prior to the R200 and further any sort of > experimental and custom extensions to the DRI open source > drivers. > > Let's hope, no one does mind this mailing. > > -Alex. > > PS: not speaking for my employer, just documenting things that > are already publicly availabel. > |