On 6/18/07, taipan67 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerhard Erker wrote: > > I looked for my card and its a Radeon X1300. > Other list-members please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think you ought > to be using ATI's closed-source driver with that card rather than the > ati-drivers from Xorg, at least if you want to have Direct Rendering > capability. > > Last i heard, the open-source driver only supported DRI for cards up to > but not including the R300 series (Radeon 9500).
This is true. However, a new open source driver called avivo was just announced to handle the newer ATI cards. It's extremely bleeding edge and probably won't work for you, but it's something to keep your eye on. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-June/025506.html -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
