Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Feb 2006 22:15 UTC, submitted by Kombatant
3D News, GL, DirectX "ATI's R5xx line was first released back in October 2005. The initial launch covered the X1800 and X1300 series, with the X1600 series following suit in November. Last month we saw the release of the new X1900 series too. Now, let me count the months from October to February; it is 5 months, right? Well, believe it or not, that's the number of months the new X1000 series is out in the market without Linux support. If you are unfortunate enough to own such a card, all you have is Matthew Tippett's statement in Phoronix."
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ATI OSS 3d driver support
by Sollord on Thu 23rd Feb 2006 15:58 UTC
Sollord
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2006-01-05

Since I've yet to see this brought up ATI has released the spec for upto the r3xx series and there are open source 3d drivers in the mesa/drm and x.org cvs trees which is more then can be said for Nvidia.

RE: ATI OSS 3d driver support
by rayiner on Thu 23rd Feb 2006 16:30 in reply to "ATI OSS 3d driver support"
rayiner Member since:
2005-07-06

ATI didn't release the specs to the R300 series. The specs were reverse-engineered, starting from the R200 documentation.

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