On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > > I was looking at the mailing list archive and there were several questions > > > > > from about a year ago wondering whether the ATI Rage XL based cards would > > > > > be getting XV support. The answer was that it was in the works. I could > > > > > find nothing else about it. Does anyone know when/whether these cards have > > > > > or will have XV support added for them any time soon?
> > > > Check out http://gatos.sf.net/. They have drivers for XFree86 that > > > > support the hardware scaling/colorspace conversion engine on the Mach64 > > > > chipsets. > > > AFAIK, their drivers are mature and stable enough to be included in core XFree86 > > > CVS tree, aren't they? In fact, lots of people expected them in 4.2.0. What > > > are "official" plans with respect to this subject? Will we see Xft2 and gatos' > > > drivers in 4.2.1? ;-) > > GATOS functionality will be merged in by next release. > Cool! Will Xft2 follow too? I'd really like to see Mozilla AA my fonts ;-) That's something I'm not involved in, but I believe this work has already been committed to the XFree86 CVS repository. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
