On Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:35:55 Dmitry Samoyloff wrote: > Jason Self wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Dmitry Samoyloff <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > There's still no libre 3D support for ATI (at least for modern chips). > > > > The radeonhd driver site says 3D acceleration via Mesa is supported > > for r5xx/rs690 GPUs (X1xxx) and is in progress for r6xx/r7xx GPUs > > (HD2xxx-HD4xxx) but I don't need 3D myself, so I've never fully looked > > into the matter. > > Moreover, there's no 2D acceleration also for the newer ATI chips (without > firmwares), Xorg works slow as hell :-( > > I believe it is a community pressure > (http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg) which is lead ATI to releasing > their specs. However that was not enough: required firmwares remains > non-free.
That might be it, but ATI actually never released any specs until AMD bought it. -- RMS's Mostly Slax http://rmsgnulinux.org #rmsgnulinux @ irc.freenode.net -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html email /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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