On 3/18/07, Brandon Sharitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember reading something about Jerome Glisse leading up an effort too > bring support to r500 based cards, though I don't recall if it was > "officially" happening with in the DRI development process, or just a side > effort for now to be folded in once working. Anyway, I would like find some > way to help in any way I can, probably more by testing or gleaning > information from the card with the various reverse engineering tools than > actual programming however. I don't like the fglrx drivers, and I don't > need something to play games with, at least a good 2D opensource driver and > maybe enough 3D support to run a compositing window manager. I have a 256MB > x1300 and also an integrated 200M(or what ever the official number is) card, > and I just want to help as much as I can. > > Brandon Sharitt > > -- > I am become Chuck Norris, the destroyer of worlds. > > --J. Robert Oppenheimer, upon testing of the first atomic bomb > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't have enought right now to keep up working on this. However other coders did take over this and have made great progress. I don't think they feel it to be ready for a release yet. You may likely see more things pretty soon i hope. In the mean time if you want to get involve trust me start reading dri, xorg, mesa code and all documentation and the wiki at dri.freedesktop.org working on video driver isn't that hard as hw manufacturer want you to think. The big difficult point is the understanding off all various aspect of this beast (video mode, dac, rasterizer, ...). best, Jerome Glisse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
