Last week we reported that
version 0.1.0 of the Avivo driver would soon be released and that following day were several noteworthy commits to the driver such as new PCI IDs added and cleaning up the code. Over the weekend, Alexander Larsson has added
shadow frame-buffer support. To use the Shadow frame-buffer with the Avivo driver using the latest code from git, the
ShadowFB boolean option needs to be added to the device section of the
xorg.conf. Jerome Glisse has also fixed the
15 and 16 bits screen color depth with the driver.
For more information on the open-source R500/R600 "Avivo" display driver, you can
search the news/articles as well as checking out
this page.