I am very curious about the status of r500 support. I hope I don't offend anyone by asking. If there is someone currently working on this, I want to know if there is any way for a layman to help out? I would love to contribute in any way possible!
Cheers, Magnus Ahlberg 2007/3/19, Jerome Glisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
