That is great news. I was about to inquire about those recently released FireGL drivers that are said to work with the 8500. Is the developement of those drivers related in any way to TG?
As far as Doom3 Linux goes .. I think there's still a long way before Doom3 can run with all features enabled on an open source ATI driver. As you are aware, Doom3 makes heavy use of pixel shaders and other advanced features. Don't ask about ETAs or what the plans for a 'technology test' of Doom3 Linux are though, cause I have no idea .. all I can say is that Id would help out driver developement / testing / performance feedback on Linux as much as possible. TTimo -- Id Software contractor / Linux tech At 20:07 08/06/2002 -0400, Leif Delgass wrote: >Thats great news, Jens! Maybe you can get John Carmack to help test it >with the Doom 3 engine. :) In a recent Slashdot post he said: > >"Unrelated linux note: yes, there will almost certainly be a linux binary >for the game. It will probably only work on the nvidia drivers initially, >but I will assist any project attempting to get the necessary driver >support on other cards." > >http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=33453&cid=3619372 > >-Leif > >On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Jens Owen wrote: > > > Good news for Radeon 8500 owners. We have posted this announcement on > > our TG web site: > > > > "The Weather Channel is funding TG to develop an open source 3D DRI > > driver for the ATI Radeon 8500 graphics card. The driver will be > > released to the XFree86 Project around Q4 of 2002, to be distributed to > > the public in future versions of the XFree86 X Server." > > > > We'll be starting this project right away and using the DRI repository > > for our open development. > > > > Regards, > > Jens > > > > -- /\ > > Jens Owen / \/\ _ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ \ \ Steamboat Springs, Colorado > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > > August 25-28 in Las Vegas - > http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dri-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > > >-- >Leif Delgass >http://www.retinalburn.net > > > >_______________________________________________________________ > >Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference >August 25-28 in Las Vegas - >http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink > >_______________________________________________ >Dri-devel mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
