On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:33:47PM +0100, Alexander Stohr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i know that DRI is targeting open source development,
> but i know myselves that for a developer there can
> always be a need for a 2nd source driver reference.
> There are several other reasons why an alternate
> Linux driver might be of interest for the audience.
>
> So please excuse me for posting this information to your lists.
>
> So this passed the news wires today:
> ATI drives graphics performance for Linux users with new unified driver
> http://mirror.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2002/4574.html
>
> The drivers can now be downloaded for free at www.ati.com
> (see e.g. Linux & FireGL 8800).
>
> The drivers should run on Linux/x86 with glibc 2.2,
> some common kernel modules do come precompiled and
> a build environment for gcc2.96 and gcc3.2 is included,
> thus making that drivers compatible with
> e.g. RedHat(R) Linux(R)/x86 8.0 or 7.3 versions.
>
> Supported cards should be (list might not be complete):
> - ATI Radeon 8500 {/DV/LE}, 9000 {/PRO}, 9500 {/PRO}, 9700 {/PRO} -> "Built
> by ATI"
> - ATI FireGL 8700, 8800, E1, X1, Z1/X1-128MB (just announced for retail),
> Mobility
>
> I installed that drivers and tested them a tiny little bit.
> Simple applications like glxgears do perform very well and
> they are working quite nice for ut2003_demo (S3TC!), Maya and Houdini.
> My impression is that things like Quake, Chromium or Blender should work.
> I just had a few minutes of a one-man tournament session this noon.
>
> I tried XVideo support and it showed that the CPU usage of TOP
> was higher than that of the video player application. Features
> that you will on FireGL boards are Overlays and PBuffer rendering
> support.
>
> Please excuse me again, i furthert want to give a few of the end
> users an alternative to the dri drivers, which are often only
> really useable if you do have downloaded som 60 MB of CVS sources
> and built whole XF86 with a not totally trivial process.
>
> Let me express that i do _not_ object to any of the DRI-Devel works.
> DRI did great job and it resolves for situations where ATI
> cant provide solutions as of today and possibly long term.
> Just saying embedded Radeon chipsets, ATI chipsets on BSD,
> old ATI chipsets prior to the R200 and further any sort of
> experimental and custom extensions to the DRI open source
> drivers.
>
> Let's hope, no one does mind this mailing.
>
> -Alex.
>
> PS: not speaking for my employer, just documenting things that
> are already publicly availabel.
Quote from the webpage (URL above):
"The new unified driver provides robust OpenGL® 2.0 support for many of ATIs
award-winning graphics boards including:"
Does these drivers _really_ have OGL 2.0 support?
-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
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