> Hello Alexander! > > No change to get this going on "your partner" boards? > Even with flashed BIOS? > > I can get may hands on a 8500LE on top of my dual Athlon > 1900+ MP/XP for > testing. > > Thanks, > Dieter
The partner boards do have individual board features which aren't tested and/or supported by this drivers. Its not possible to support all those third party boardmakers products unless those companys do fund and/or support our local Linux development in some way. Else we would redirect an unkown amount of support queries to ATI phoneline helpdesks for non ATI boards. For now you should consider those Linux drivers are an extra feature which is funded by the own board sales. As someone else wrote, the development of open source drivers is assisted as well by ATI, but it would solve other not so wide spread platforms like DEC alpha CPU or PowerPC CPU in some time frame. The same applies for third party board vendor products on x86 platform. I think you know about the very recent Athlon MP and cache coherency findings. They were addressed by recent information from AMD itself. Due to its urgency, OpenSource and ClosedSource programmers for Linux and X11, got informed about the solutions roughly at the same time. For the ATI FireGL drivers, this means there will be measures and additional notes in upcoming driver releases, e.g. 1.4.0, that will help handling such machine setups. Regards Alex. ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
