On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Mike Mestnik wrote:
>
> > Is this really worth trying, dose this enable direct rendering?
> > Can you play Quake Arena (The only thing that matters!)?
> > I have a Radeon 8500 might this work with my card to?
>
> No. The Radeon 7000/7200/7500 boards's display controller is closely
> related to the "original" Radeon, enough so that this should theoretically
> work. The 8500, however, has some significant differences from both the
> 7x00 Radeons and the "original" Radeon that make it truly incompatible
> with XFree86 4.1.0's Radeon driver. However, there's a 2D-only Radeon 8500
> driver in XFree CVS now, which would at least get the board working.
>
> I don't know ATI's intentions as far at Linux 3D support for the Radeon
> 8500 goes though. Anyone else know what the scoop is there?
They do make available register-level docs and sample code under NDA to
some developers. So at some point this will be supported. (and if someone
wants to work on this - send me an e-mail off the list. be warned though -
making DRI support for 8500 will require copious amounts of your time).
Vladimir Dergachev
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