Re: New ATI Drivers

Daniel Cassidy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
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On Friday 12 September 2003 1:32 am, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> > I was also under the impression that there are open source Radeon drivers
> > ready and waiting to be released with the next release of XFree86.
>
>   Could be. Right now, Radeons up to the 9000 (R250, if my memory serves me
> correctly) are supported with 3D accelleration.

This I didn't know. The fact that 3D accelleration is supported at all 
suggests to me that ATI have indeed been releasing specs.

> The R300 and R350 cards,
> such as the Radeon 9700 (my card),

Grr. You and your flash card :P.

> 9200, 9500, 9600 and 9800 only get 2D
> accelleration in XFree86 4.3. Maybe XFree86 4.4 will improve this situation
> (anyone know whenn 4.4 is due?).

When it's done ;)

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