Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Sep 2009 22:29 UTC, submitted by lemur2
Open source 3D graphics drivers for ATI R600 garphics cards has been submitted to the kernel-next tree for possible inclusion in the Linux kernel 2.6.32. "David Airlie has pushed a horde of new code into his drm-next Git tree, which is what will get pulled into the Linux 2.6.32 kernel once the merge window is open. Most prominently, this new DRM code brings support for kernel mode-setting with R600 class hardware as well as 3D support."
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2005-07-06
Which is completely irrelevant if we don't have a working alternative.
It might be relevant, once we have the open ATI drivers available, but we don't at the moment. And NO some code in a git repository, isn't something I consider available.
I've an older ATI card, which is more or less useless under Linux. I ended up buying an nvidia card, even though I didn't want to infect my system with a binary driver, because I had to be able to get some work done.
I wish I could tell you the chip, but for some reason MSI didn't think it was important to print the model on the board.
At least the nVidia driver works for the most part (and I never had the problem with nvidia and KDE4 on any of my machines). I have hardware x264 full-HD decoding and working 3D acceleration on a card I paid about $40 for.
What ATI card with which currently available drivers, can do that? I would love to ditch the closed source driver so I once again can have a fully open source system.
I'll be looking forwards to 2.6.32, but until when I will stick with something I know works.