----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Mays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eric Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] New Nvidia drivers for Linux (4349)
> I'll investigate this further. That ATI driver should work under XFree86 > v4.3.0 and Mandrake but I don't have a 8500 card to test. May go out today > and get a OEM one if I can to evaluate. Will let you know. > ~Ken Thank you very much, very kind of you. I just had some news : apparently, they have released new drivers for FireGL X1 card, and are backward compatible with R200. They even talk about glibc 2.3 and XFree 4.3 in their readme. You just have to go on their web site, ask for FireGL drivers for Linux (not 8500) and you have to register to be able to download them (not a problem though, but another example of ATI lack of care of their customers nvidia's professional card, Quadro, is supported in their drivers too...) A direct link is here : http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/firegl/linux/linuxfireglx1z18x00x420296.h tml These drivers are dated of 28/03/03 !! That's a pity we have to beg for drivers for 8500 card... I gave a try. The installer is a lot nicer, but I have an error at compilation. Unfortunately, it tries to apply a patch to a kernel header, but fails, and cannot compile the fireglx.o driver. I'll have a better look and will report the problem. If someone else could give a try too. Cheers Eric
