Open-Source ATI Driver Nears New Release

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67364

    Open-Source ATI Driver Nears New Release

    Phoronix: Open-Source ATI Driver Nears New Release

    Alex Deucher has announced a new release candidate for the next xf86-video-ati driver release. The xf86-video-ati 6.11 release has a major rework when it comes to the display output code along with a memory corruption fix for the ATI RS780 memory controller...

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  • RealNC
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2008
    • 4247

    #2
    I suppose this doesn't support 3D for HD4xxx boards yet?

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    • Chewi
      Senior Member
      • Jun 2008
      • 1043

      #3
      That's certainly what I want know. I'm guessing not, otherwise it would have said so.

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      • Nille
        Senior Member
        • Jul 2008
        • 1305

        #4
        Originally posted by RealNC View Post
        I suppose this doesn't support 3D for HD4xxx boards yet?
        <?(((((<(

        For HD4XXX there is current only HW Accel on a dev branch.

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        • sundown
          Senior Member
          • Apr 2007
          • 271

          #5
          Oh, quit whining, I had to wait 2 years for 3d! Besides, it's the other driver which will implement 3d for your boards first.

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          • bridgman
            AMD Linux
            • Oct 2007
            • 13187

            #6
            3D support is actually handled by the mesa and drm drivers, not radeon/radeonhd. The radeon/radeonhd drivers just need to initialize the drm and support the dri protocol to co-exist with the 3D driver, and that support is already there.

            Mesa is the "missing link" for 3D on 6xx/7xx right now - and is what we're working on now.
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            • Louise
              Senior Member
              • May 2008
              • 598

              #7


              got updated today as well.

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              • oyvind
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2007
                • 153

                #8
                Nice to see the open source driver progressing. Hoping for a release soon with some fixes for R500-corruption issues when using EXA acceleration (yes, the bugs have all been filed ).

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