"William L. Thomson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:19:08 -0400:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:55 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:31:09 -0400 >> Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > if the driver blows dead goats and the vendor isnt willing to help >> > and no Gentoo dev wants to touch it, what other solution is there ? >> >> There's an open-source driver for the r5xx stuff called the avivo >> driver [1]. >> >> 1. >> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=avivo/xf86-video-avivo.git;a=summary > > Still leaves a gap, since the open source radeon driver is not fully > supporting R3xx to my knowledge much less r4xx. To the best of my knowledge... it's not stable upstream yet, but the radeon driver now includes (reverse engineered) R3xx and I believe R4xx support, including 3D. R5xx is right out, since even VESA has issues due to the no 2D hardware engine at all. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
