On Wednesday 21 November 2001 17:49 pm, you wrote:
> Hey, did these ATI FireGL products already hit the stores now?
> AFAIK they have not.
>
> As Linus always told: Things will come when they are done.
> Unlike Linus, the driver wont be open source, simply because
> of the high amount of trade secrets contained within. But
> on the other side you will get premium support on this code.
> And you will get a bunch of grafics industry important features
> that you wont see in that concentrated form at much other drivers.

Yeah, but would ATI release drivers for the 7500/7800/8500 or only to the 
8500 series?

Any time frame? I'm going to order a machine soon (dual AMD) and I'm 
interested buying the Radeon 8500DV and so far not a single word from ATI 
regarding wether the card will be fully supported under Linux (and I mean 
video in/out [V4L compatibility is very important], DVD playback (including 
Xv support), TV tuner etc.. - will of this will be supported with the 
upcoming driver?

NVidia for example have a nice trick - 95% of their drivers code is the same 
on Linux and on Windows, with only some modifications like kernel modules for 
Linux and agpgard - will ATI do the same?

-- 
Hetz Ben Hamo
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