This issue does need review so I decided to look into it. One problem off the bat was when I looked into Mesa3D v5.0.1. I seem to have an older version with Mandrake 9.1. I'll also check the CVS trees of Xfree86 and see what shakes loose.
Its still early to get good feedback on the net about ATI issues with Mandrake 9.1 so guess I'll burn a few cycles doing it for you and ATI!!! ~Ken P.S. I'll have to get an old 8500-based card though... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] New Nvidia drivers for Linux (4349) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken Mays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:44 PM > Subject: Re: [Cooker] New Nvidia drivers for Linux (4349) > > > > Starting from here: > > http://www.ati.com/developer/altoschart.pdf > > http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/radeon.4.html > > 'radeon is a XFree86 driver for ATI RADEON based video cards. It contains > > full support for 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit pixel depths, dual-head setup, flat > > panel, hardware 2D acceleration, hardware 3D acceleration (except R300 > cards > > like the Radeon 9700PRO/9700/9500PRO/9500, FireGL X1/Z1), hardware cursor, > > XV extension, Xinerama extension.' > > > > So after reading your links and mharris' comments on ATI providing him > with > > patches, DID those patches ever make it into XFree86 v4.3.0?!? Mharris' > > notes were in January. If not, then either MandrakeClub or ATI should be > > able to point you to an alternate updated driver that works under Xfree86 > > v4.3.0 and Mandrake 9.1 (release). > > I don't know if all these patches are in DRI, I guess so, since DRI drivers > work indeed, but barely (textures are messy, poor performance). However, I > can tell you that without reading any press release, ATI has not provided > their proprietary drivers since november (the only way to have support for > S3TC compression, which is patented and thus cannot be included in open > source drivers). Why do you want me to say : "ok, I am glad, ATI has a press > release where they claim they will give drivers regularly", when new drivers > have not been released for 6 months. I just see a difference between words > and facts here. > And it is also a pity that ATI do not give any feedback, do not open a > forum, and barely listen to their customers. > > Eric > > >
