The Death Of The R500 Avivo Driver

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The Death Of The R500 Avivo Driver

06 September 2007, 08:40 AM

Phoronix: The Death Of The R500 Avivo Driver

It's been a glorious past couple of months for ATI Radeon X1000 owners that have had very basic open-source support provided by the Avivo display driver. However, it looks like the open-source Avivo driver will soon be going away to a bit-bucket heaven.

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yoshi314

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06 September 2007, 01:52 PM

that's a bad thing imho.

there should be an independent an perfectly legal alternative to ati's nda proposal.
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