On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:20, Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: > Dne, 31. 01. 2010 03:52:01 je Kelly Clowers napisal(a): >> >> AMD has published all 2d and 3d info for r100 through r700 (r800/5xxx is >> in the pipeline): >> http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ > > I stand corrected. That's like music to my ears. > >> DRI2/KMS is theoretically usable with 2.6.32, Mesa 7.7, XServer 1.7 and >> the latest Radeon (not HD) drivers (possibly with some patches), but >> anything older is a no go.
I should have said this bit applies to the Radeon HD 3850 and other recent cards. 3d support for older cards goes much further back. > Am I to understand that AMD released specs for their cutting-edge cards > only, or just that the radeon and radeonhd developers don't have time, > resources or interest in supporting older, obsolete equipment? No, Radeon has for some time fully supported 2d and 3d for r100 to r500; that is Radeon 7000 through 9000 series and x300 through x1950. Radeon HD 2xxx through Radeon HD 4xxx (r600 - r700) have more limited support at this time. All the specs for these have been released, but even with specs it takes time to make the drivers. For really old cards - Rage and Mach - documents have not been freely released, but 3d support was developed with docs provided to specific developers under NDA (predating AMD's 100% open attitude). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org