Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Sep 2007 20:09 UTC, submitted by Michael
"Not only is AMD providing the open-source community with their ATI GPU specifications, but they have also been partnering with Novell on the development of a new open-source display driver. We've been telling you about AMD's open-source work all month, and today the new driver is finally available for download. It is still very much a work in progress and isn't much further along than the open-source R500 Avivo driver. However, this new driver does support the Radeon HD 2000 (R600) family. This new X.Org driver is called RadeonHD."
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RE[3]: ATI Express 200M support?
by sbergman27 on Tue 18th Sep 2007 01:30
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I've found the 2D acceleration to be OK. And I've never even tried output hotplug. It's just nice to be able to have a totally OSS machine without feeling like a second class citizen. All my Unix career, since 1988, I've spent feeling that I'm a second class citizen in one way or another.
It's kind of like that old "Wisk" commercial: You try rubbing them out, and soaking them out, and you still get "You're a second class citizen!". ;-p
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2005-09-21
Yeah I'm in the same boat. The latest radeon drivers have been getting better, but they're still quite buggy and slow. I don't care so much about 3D either, but having reasonable 2D acceleration and output hotplugging would be really nice.