Hey, did these ATI FireGL products already hit the stores now? AFAIK they have not.
As Linus always told: Things will come when they are done. Unlike Linus, the driver wont be open source, simply because of the high amount of trade secrets contained within. But on the other side you will get premium support on this code. And you will get a bunch of grafics industry important features that you wont see in that concentrated form at much other drivers. But... the FireGL Board is a special edition, with possibly hand selected chips and a PCB design that is designed and tested for very high frequencys. Maybe the cooling differs significantly. You know the risks of overclocking something? And I am not talking about things like overclocking a celeron that was previousely labeled at 2/3 of its capabilities because the silicon process worked better than sheduled. To conclude, the development of such performance and industry feature enhancements is only possible because someone is willing to pay the extra money for it and thus to fund the living a few high profile developers. Regards, AlexS. > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Born [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 15:48 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Dri-devel] ATI driver for Fire 8700/8800 > > > Hi all, > > these cards have Linux32 driver (written at www.ati.com) and > base AFAIK on > the Radeon 7500/8500 GPU. > So do these drivers give T&L Hardware support for OpenGL on > new ATI cards? > I would like to buy a Radeon 7500 with DVI/TV/VGA out. > > Anybody has these drivers? > > Best Regards > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
