On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 00:52 -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > If X1600 is a completely new chip then it is likely we are not going to > get any documentation within 1.5-2 years from the release. This has been > so with all of ATI's new chips: mach64, rage128, radeon, Rage Theatre, > Rage Theatre 200. > > The only exceptions were, I believe, 2d support for rage128 and radeon > cards - and that turned out to be very similar to mach64.
Actually, AFAIR all of Rage128, R100 and R200 had pretty decent support including rather shortly after release, that may have been related to companies working with ATI to make it happen though. > One can hope that despite the newness of X1600 chip some of the basics > (like video mode setup) would remain similar enough to have partially > functioning 2d driver. As I pointed out earlier (on the xorg mailing list IIRC), the AVIVO display engine is completely different from any previous ATI PC display engine (and much better, of course :). Trying to get it working by modifying the display engine code in the current drivers is hopeless. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
