On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 10:41:42PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: | I just got a laptop (Acer Aspire 5100 `series') with a Radeon video card | (X1300) and a WXGA screen - 1200x800. It was a good deal, but the ATI | video card had me worried.
<SNIP> | (If someone is aware of work being done on supporting those cards, I'd | be happy to hear that...) People are working on avivo(4), an open source driver for next-gen ATI cards[0]. Apparantly, they're going the difficult route of reverse engineering stuff since no docs are available. Last I heard was that it required changes to X that aren't in OpenBSD yet[1]. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd [0]: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=753&num=1 [1]: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118461851232744&w=2 -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
