--- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:06:46PM -0800, Alex Deucher wrote: > > > > > I think in general > though > > ATI is more open to xfree86 and open soruce development. they > provide > > databooks to just about all of their hardware > > > Does that means that everyone who is willing to pay just for the > books > can buy them? > What about the data book for the r300s?
No. you have to register as a developer at their website. it helps to have actually developed some code for their chips before hand. I think they want to limit who they give access to; they only give the books to people that will use them. I've heard they have released some 2d info for r300 but no 3D stuff. If you are an oem or a partner you can probably get any and all of the databooks, but there will be limitations on what you can do with that info. > > > > nvidia only supports > 2d > > in the opensource "nv" driver they maintain through mark v. The > open > > source ati drivers support 2d and 3d for all chips from the mach64 > to > > the r200 radeons. r300s only have 2d support. > > > Will the r300s have 3d support in the future? It depends whether they release 3d databooks to opensource developers or not. It might help if someone (like the weather channel) decides to write a driver for r300 and opensource it. > -- > "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples > then > you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea > and I > have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have > two > ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ actcom . net . > il) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
