Re: DRI with ATI graphics chip

[Thomas Schlesinger <schlesinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 25. September 2006 23:57 schrieb Tiv:

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>
> Hi there Thomas ---
>
>     Sorry, but to my understanding, anything ATI newer than Radeon 9200
> series (Rv280) does not have the native kernel level support for DRI/DRM
> under Xorg running on any BSD or linux.

Ok, I've thought the free drivers would "only" lack hardware 3D 
accelleration :-(

> Perhaps we should urge AMD (when they complete the takeover of ATI) to
> open the documentation to linux and BSD developers.

They don't listen to the Linux guys so far. I doubt, they would listen to such 
a small minority user base like BSD (not enough money to make from), but may 
be we'll see a wonder...

Thanks,
Thomas