Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:16:12PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:42:10PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: Are these drivers much better then than XFree ones or is there a reason to be promoting nonfree drivers? I orginally packaged up the nvidia ones in the way they are done

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:34:57PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 23:16:12 -0500, Adam Majer wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:42:10PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: Are these drivers much better then than XFree ones or is there a reason to be promoting nonfree drivers? I

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-02 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:42:10PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: Are these drivers much better then than XFree ones or is there a reason to be promoting nonfree drivers? I orginally packaged up the nvidia ones in the way they are done due to the fact the XFree ones had no 3d acceleration at all

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-02 Thread Matthew P. McGuire
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:42:10PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: Are these drivers much better then than XFree ones or is there a reason to be promoting nonfree drivers? I recently bought an entirely new machine with a Radeon 9500 Pro in it. None of the XFree86 drivers in woody would run on it.

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-02 Thread Chris Cheney
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:16:12PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: I think you might be the sucker. :) [ok, it's not a flame thing]. Does the radeon driver support 3D accel for cards beyond the R1xx level? ie. something like Radeon 7500. I don't think that Radeon 8500, 8800, etc..a are supported

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 23:16:12 -0500, Adam Majer wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:42:10PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: Are these drivers much better then than XFree ones or is there a reason to be promoting nonfree drivers? I orginally packaged up the nvidia ones in the way they are done due to

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-02 Thread Tefilo Ruiz Surez
I've just bought a Dell Inspiron 8500, with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9000, and it works perfectly with the drm modules from drm.sf.net. 2D3D acceleration, swsusp and so on. 6083 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1216.600 FPS I think it could be a nice idea to get the xlibmesa4-drm-src from penguinppc.org

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:34:57PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: Uhh, that's utterly incorrect. My Radeon 9000 has out-of-the-box 3D support, as do original Radeons, and all Radeon 7xxx, 8xxx, and 9[01]00 cards. The 9200 *may*, but I'm unsure. Hell, GATOS will even give you VIVO support. The

ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-01 Thread Marko Jung
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! I build two packages converting the RPM provided by ATI for their RADEON video cards to a binary package with the XFree module, libGL and some tools and a source package for building a kernel module with make-kpkg. These packages are very

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-01 Thread Chris Cheney
/me coughs ;)

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-01 Thread Chris Cheney
Are these drivers much better then than XFree ones or is there a reason to be promoting nonfree drivers? I orginally packaged up the nvidia ones in the way they are done due to the fact the XFree ones had no 3d acceleration at all and that it was illegal to distribute nvidia's binaries directly.