Starting from here: http://www.ati.com/developer/altoschart.pdf http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/radeon.4.html 'radeon is a XFree86 driver for ATI RADEON based video cards. It contains full support for 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit pixel depths, dual-head setup, flat panel, hardware 2D acceleration, hardware 3D acceleration (except R300 cards like the Radeon 9700PRO/9700/9500PRO/9500, FireGL X1/Z1), hardware cursor, XV extension, Xinerama extension.'
So after reading your links and mharris' comments on ATI providing him with patches, DID those patches ever make it into XFree86 v4.3.0?!? Mharris' notes were in January. If not, then either MandrakeClub or ATI should be able to point you to an alternate updated driver that works under Xfree86 v4.3.0 and Mandrake 9.1 (release). ~Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 6:56 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] New Nvidia drivers for Linux (4349) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken Mays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:39 PM > Subject: Re: [Cooker] New Nvidia drivers for Linux (4349) > > > > You may not have read ATI's website on the Linux support issue. They > support > > Linux/FreeBSD work > > but rely on the "X" windowing developers (i.e. XIG, XFree86 teams). I > > included the link to the RPM for the Radeon 9700/PRO. The ATI Radeon > > 9800/PRO, 9600, 9200 boards were just recently released as of yesterday > > (April 2, 2003) so you got 12 weeks before you see XFree86 drivers for > them > > (maybe sooner?). > > http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2003/4632.html > > http://www.bebits.com/app/2938 > > http://dri.sf.net/ > > http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/ > > http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/ > > http://bytesex.org/xawtv/ > > http://www.xig.com/ > > http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ > > > http://pdownload.mii.instacontent.net/ati/drivers/fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.5.1.i5 > > 86.rpm > > > > ~Ken > > Thanks for the links, but . I talk here about good 3D acceleration, not 2D > display . I have a R8500 card since november 2001Drivers 2.5.1 do not work > on mandrake 9.1. > In 2002, ATI has released drivers in 2002 in april, june, november. I was > thinking : sweet, the releases are not very often, but at least they are at > regular periods. But since november, they have flatlined. > What I see is that 7 days after the release of Mdk 9.1 and RH 9, nvidia have > working drivers for XFree 4.3. Those for ATI are still awaited. I can make > DRI work with my R8500, but flashy colors give me headaches, and performance > is barely higher than for a 7500. Moreover, they do not answer emails, > despite their feedback survey, whereas nvidia has a forum where an internal > developper actively discuss issues. > > So what I refer to is : > http://www.advogato.org/person/mharris/diary.html?start=5 > where you learn that ATI's patches are not added in XFree (not ATI's fault > though) > http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56 > where you learn that 9200+ specs are not given by ATI anymore (this is more > problematic). > > I am unhappy of that situation, because I love my card, picture quality is > wonderful. But I'd like to have more feedback/PR from ATI since they made > promises. > Eric > > >
